The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.

A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.

Theological Roots of the Medieval/Modern Merchants' Self-Representation- G. Todeschini PART I: SELF-IMAGES Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean- F. Trivellato Merchants in Charge. The Self-Perception of Amsterdam Merchants, ca. 1550-1700- C. Lesger Merchants on the Defensive: National Self-Images in the Dutch Republic of the Late Eighteenth Century- D. Sturkenboom PART II: CAPITALISM AS NORMATIVE "Merchants" and "Gentlemen" in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Worlds of Jean Abraham Grill- L. Müller Professional Ethics and Commercial Rationality at the Beginning of the Modern Era- J. Hoock The Anxious Merchant, the Bold Speculator, and the Malicious Bankrupt: Doing Business in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg- M. Lindemann Accounting for War and Revolution: Philadelphia Merchants and Commercial Risk, 1774-1811 PART III: INDIVIDUALS AND STRIVING Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London- D. Harkness Coming of Agein Trade: Masculinity and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century England- J. Smail Success and Self-Loathing in the Life of an Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneur- M. Kadane