1st Edition
Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg
List of Figures
List of Maps
Note on Money
Note on Translations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Family Firms Considered: “Ambrosius and Hans, the Brothers Höchstetter and Associates”
Chapter 2. Capitalistic Practices: The Höchstetter Brassworks at Pflach
Chapter 3. Crisis and Insolvency: Information Management by and about
the Höchstetters
Chapter 4. Bankruptcy: Local Institutions and their Consequences
Chapter 5. Bankruptcy: Financial Markets and Credit Networks
Chapter 6. Ruin and Recovery: The Question of Resilience and the
Höchstetter “Family Firm”
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Rising Höchstetter Fortunes
Appendix 2: Höchstetter Family Tree
Appendix 3: Höchstetter Creditors
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Thomas Max Safley is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
