German merchants in the nineteenth-century Atlantic /

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"This study brings to life the community of trans-Atlantic merchants who established strong economic, political, and cultural ties between the United States and the city-republic of Bremen, Germany in the nineteenth century. Lars Maischak shows that the success of Bremen's merchants in hel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Maischak, Lars, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Subjects:
Hanseatic League > History > 19th century.
Hanse > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Hanseatic League.
Städtebund Die Hanse
1800-1899
Merchants > Germany > History > 19th century.
Merchants > United States > History > 19th century.
Commerçants > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Commerçants > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
Commerce.
Merchants.
Kaufmann.
Fernhandel
Germany > Commerce > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Commerce > Germany > History > 19th century.
Germany.
United States.
Deutschland
USA.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Moorings of the Hanseatic Network: 1. Prudent pioneers: Hanseats in trans-Atlantic trade, 1798-1860; 2. The Hanseatic household: families, firms, and faith, 1815-1864; 3. Cosmopolitan conservatives: home-town traditions and Western ideas in Bremish politics, 1806-1860
  • Part II. Exchanges: In a Transnational World: 4. Free labor and dependent labor: from patronage to wage labor and social control, 1815-1861; 5. International improvement: Hanseats, Hamiltonians, and Jacksonians, 1845-1860; 6. Nations, races, and empires: Hanseats encounter the other, 1837-1859
  • Part. III. Decline of a Cosmopolitan Community: 7. The end of merchant-capital: crisis and adaptation in a world of industrial capitalism, 1857-1890; 8. Decisions and divisions: Hanseatic responses to nation-making wars, 1859-1867; 9. Patriarchs into patriots: Hanseats in a world of nation-states, 1867-1945
  • Conclusion.

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