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Using personal narratives left by early modern German merchants, this study disrupts linear histories of capitalism and modernity. Martha C. Howell examines how merchants understood their profession and themselves, demonstrating that their honor was based not just on riches but on their comportment in the marketplace and in society more generally.

Produktbeschreibung
Using personal narratives left by early modern German merchants, this study disrupts linear histories of capitalism and modernity. Martha C. Howell examines how merchants understood their profession and themselves, demonstrating that their honor was based not just on riches but on their comportment in the marketplace and in society more generally.
Autorenporträt
Martha C. Howell is Miriam Champion Emerita Professor of History at Columbia University. She specializes in the late medieval and early modern history of Germany, the Low Countries, and France. Previous publications include Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600 (Cambridge, 2010).