H. Soly, Capital at Work in Antwerp’s Golden Age, Studies in European Urban History

This book encompasses work from Hugo Soly’s entire career. Even more than that. The major gain is his inductive method and actor’s perspective on capitalism that automatically follows from using the definition of capital as a process. By doing so, he has successfully introduced the “new history of capitalism” on the European mainland of the early modern period. And in doing so he gives the so-missed human face to macro stories such as the “invisible hand.”