| Edition |
1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed. |
| Description |
iv, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theological roots of the medieval/modern merchants' self-representation / Giacomo Todeschini -- Images and self-images of Sephardic merchants in early modern Europe and the Mediterranean / Francesca Trivellato -- Merchants in charge : the self-perception of Amsterdam merchants, ca. 1550-1700 / Clé Lesger -- Merchants on the defensive : national self-images in the Dutch Republic of the late eighteenth century / Dorothee Sturkenboom -- "Merchants" and "gentlemen" in eighteenth-century Sweden : worlds of Jean Abraham Grill / Leos Müller -- Professional ethics and commercial rationality at the beginning of the modern era / Jochen Hoock -- Anxious merchant, the bold speculator, and the malicious bankrupt : doing business in eighteenth-century Hamburg / Mary Lindemann -- Accounting for war and revolution : Philadelphia merchants and commercial risk, 1774-1811 / Cathy Matson -- Accounting for science : how a merchant kept his books in Elizabethan London / Deborah E. Harkness -- Coming of age in trade : masculinity and commerce in eighteenth-century England / John Smail -- Success and self-loathing in the life of an eighteenth-century entrepreneur / Matthew Kadane. |
| Subject |
Merchants -- History.
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Merchants. |
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History. |
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Commerce -- History.
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Commerce. |
| Added Author |
Jacob, Margaret C., 1943-
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Secretan, Catherine.
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| ISBN |
9780230617810 paperback |
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0230617816 paperback |
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