The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

"This collection is highly original and will appeal to all students of early modern Europe. The editors have assembled front-line pieces of scholarship that put European townsmen, and some townswomen, on the verge of the modern in an entirely new light. The new sources revealed here give a tolerant yet precise view of the the early modern middle class that comes out of actually listening to it, and will inspire a new generation of scholars."

- Deirdre McCloskey, author of The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006)