Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg

by Thomas Max Safley

Book Overview

This fascinating study follows the fortunes of the H chstetter 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032084723
• ISBN13: 9781032084725
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"