Description: Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ethics they followed.
Brief description: ESTHER SAHLE is a research associate at the Freie Universität Berlin. She holds an MSc in Global History and a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics.
Review Quotes: Sahle takes up an old question: Why did Quakers in England and America prosper, in some cases amassing great wealth? . . . [Sahle] finds that . . . [Quakers] refused to tolerate anything that smacked of questionable business practices and whose moral standing was restored. Recommended.-- "CHOICE"