This fascinating study follows the fortunes of the Höchstetter family, merchant-manufacturers and financiers of Augsburg, Germany, in the late-fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, and sheds light on the economic and social history of failure and resilience in early modern Europe. Carefully tracing the chronology of the family's rise, fall and transformation, it moves from the micro- to the macro-level, making comparisons with other mercantile families of the time to draw conclusions and suggest insights into such issues as social mobility, capitalist organization, business techniques, market practices and economic institutions. The result is a microhistory that offers macro-conclusions about the lived experience of early capitalism and capitalistic practices. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of economic, financial and business history, legal history and early modern European history.

Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

Business & Money

Safley, Thomas Max

Economics

Routledge

This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg. To provide the best care at the least cost the administrators of these traditionally non-capitalistic organizations engaged in a wide variety of capitalistic practices in capital, commodity, and labor markets. Their market-orientated practices inspired bourgeois virtues that included the assessments of long-term risk and reward, the avoidance of excess and waste, and the practice of obedience, persistence, and industry. Under the pressures of confessional tension, efficiency slowly evolved into a more complex notion of utility that placed the needs of the orphanages over the dictates of economy and the divisions of religion. The product of monumental, original research, this book offers a substantial revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and the advent of capitalism. A forthcoming volume will pursue these issues through a close study of the fortunes and fates of 8.000 Augsburg orphans. These studies make required reading for advanced students of early modern Europe.

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg (Studies in Central European Histories)

History

Europe

BRILL

A rich, relevant collection of primary sources at an exceptional valuePerspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations features a diverse range of primary sources, offering a total of 251 classic and contemporary documents of varying length, as well as images. In this revised Seventh Edition, the documents have been refreshed based on instructor feedback to reflect the materials most widely assigned in the course, and new documents touch on themes of nationalism, ethnicity, and migration. Together, this content makes Perspectives the most student-friendly and relevant reader―at an incredible value.

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations

Cole, Joshua

Symes, Carol

BROPHY, JAMES M.

Robertson, John.

W.W.Norton&Company

This is a preassembled package of Western Civilizations, volume 1 (978-0-393-41883-5) and Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, volume 1 (978-0-393-41871-2). The text combines historical scholarship with classroom innovation, and the reader features a diverse range of primary sources.

Western Civilizations, 20e Volume 1 with media access registration card + Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, 7e Volume 1

The best collection of longer primary sources now available in an affordable, compact format.Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations offers a broad range of selections in varying degrees of length; with a total of 225 classic and contemporary primary sources. Selections are long, which gives students a chance to engage and understand each document, and the book includes two visual sources per chapter. The wealth of selections accommodates most any course curriculum, and the readings may be used on their own or in conjunction with a textbook.

Perspectives from the Past, Vol. 1, 5th Edition: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations - From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Age of Exploration through Contemporary Times

Perspectives from the Past is the most flexible and substantial reader for use in the two-semester Western Civilizations course. The wealth of selections accommodates most any course curriculum, and the readings may be used on their own or in conjunction with a textbook.

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism

Epstein, Steven

Ancient Civilizations

Includes over three hundred primary sources. Provides a rich variety of selections including literature, eyewitness accounts, and public documents. Offers pieces that range in length from one to seven pages. Takes a Continental perspective that gives a wide view of history-incorporates documents from political, cultural, social, and economic history. Uses broad themes to make numerous connections within and across periods. Includes pedagogical aids: an introduction to reading documents, development of contextual foundation, headnotes; non-interpretive footnotes, and several review questions.

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations : From Early Modern Era Through Contemporary Times

Nilan, Cat

Americas

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg (Studies in Central European Histories)

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations

Western Civilizations, 20e Volume 1 with media access registration card + Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, 7e Volume 1

Perspectives from the Past, Vol. 1, 5th Edition: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations - From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Age of Exploration through Contemporary Times

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Age of Exploration through Contemporary Times

Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations : From Early Modern Era Through Contemporary Times