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: Esther Sahle's book is an insightful analysis of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Quaker communities in London and Philadelphia, especially Quaker merchants within those communities.--H-NET REVIEWS