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Transnational networks : German migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914 /

The volume questions traditional nation-centred narratives of the Empire as an exclusively British undertaking by concentrating on the transnational networks of German migrants, pursued over more than two centuries in a multitude of geographical settings within the British Empire.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, John R., 1965-, Manz, Stefan, Schulte Beerbühl, Margrit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Transnational Networks; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Germans in the British Empire; Migration and Business Ventures: German-speaking Migrants and Commercial Networks in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World; German Merchants and the British Empire during the Eighteenth Century; German Overseas Interests in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain; Sugarbakers, Farmers, Goldminers: From Hanover via London to New Zealand; Agents of Transnationalism: German-Canadian Immigration Agents in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Index of Names and Places.