Capital at work in Antwerp's golden age / Hugo Soly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soly, Hugo, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 55.

SEUH, Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; volume 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schoonbeke, Gilbert van, 1519-1561.

Schoonbeke, Gilbert van.

Industries.

History.

Capitalists and financiers.

Antwerp (Belgium)--Economic conditions--16th century.

Antwerp (Belgium).

Capitalists and financiers--Belgium--Antwerp--History--16th century.

Industries--Belgium--Antwerp--History--16th century.

Antwerp (Belgium)--History--16th century.

Belgium--Antwerp.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, color portrait ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2021]

Summary:

Erasmus Schetz, Gaspar Ducci, and Gilbert van Schoonbeke. Contemporaries made it indisputably clear that these three moneymakers were exceptional, from different perspectives and for different reasons, but all commentators implicitly or explicitly referred to their unique economic achievements, and they were right to do so. The exceptional careers of the three protagonists shed light on the potential of the most dynamic economic centre of Europe - and the world - during early globalization. Precisely because their economic initiatives were far more ambitious than what other businessmen in Antwerp could or would consider or achieve, their careers are ideal vantage points for observing and analysing 'capital at work'. They also provide an opportunity to examine how commercial capitalism changed and/or was transformed, and in what measure the three protagonists extended the frontiers of capitalism. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Erasmus Schetz, c. 1480-1550

1.1. How to Trade with Portugal

1.2. The Calamine Monopoly and Brass Production

1.3. Pepper and Sugar

1.4. Diversification and Focus

1.5. Finance as Investment and Speculation

1.6. Wealth and Prestige

pt. 2 Gaspar Ducci, 1495-1577

2.1. Creative Banking

2.2. New Commercial Taxes and War-Time Monopolies

2.3. The Alum Monopoly

2.4. Networks and Financial Deals

2.5. Among Such Wolves'

2.6. The Fall

pt. 3 Gilbert van Schoonbeke, 1519-1556

3.1. How to Dominate the Real Estate Market

3.2. Creating a Port and a New District

3.3. Monopolizing the Greatest Public Works

3.4. The Beer Production Monopoly

3.5. An Anti-Monopoly Revolt

3.6. Supplying the Army.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-285) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782503595634

2503595634

OCLC:

1265348314