登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists
M. JacobCatherine Secretan
出版Palgrave Macmillan, 2008-08-15
主題Biography & Autobiography / BusinessBusiness & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryBusiness & Economics / Free Enterprise & CapitalismHistory / GeneralHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / WesternHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)History / WorldHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Modern / 17th CenturyHistory / Modern / 18th CenturyHistory / Social History
ISBN02306044719780230604476
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FN4TAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Labeled as greedy and self-interested, capitalists have often suffered in historians' eyes. This book looks at merchants, entrepreneurs, and other individuals from around 1500 to 1800 - with some attention to their medieval roots - and asks how they actually saw themselves. Coming from deeply religious cultures, how did they relate their worldly activities to their beliefs and values? Did they see a conflict, as Weber might have imagined, or did they live at relative ease with the tensions between obedience to faith and the necessities of competition and striving? Drawing on personal letters and diaries, as well as handbooks, portraiture, and other pieces of material culture in general, the contributors to this volume each help to reconstruct an understanding of the people who put in place what became the dominant economic system in the Western world."--BOOK JACKET.