German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Graphs, and Maps -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Globalization and Its Enemies -- The Political Economy of Globalization -- The Politics of Globalization -- Pioneers of Globalization -- Part I Moorings of the Hanseatic Network -- 1 Prudent Pioneers -- Bremen's Merchant Capitalists in America -- Bremen as a Liberal, Free-Trading Port -- Hanseats as Economic Conservatives -- Small Firms, Big Business -- Old Boys' Networks -- Family Networks -- The Lürman Family -- The Meier Family -- Conclusion -- 2 The Hanseatic Household -- The Spirit of the Hanseatic Household -- Christian Seafaring -- The Calvinist Axis -- Mothers, Sisters, and Wives -- Hanseatic Women and the Family Fortune -- Husband and Wife in the Christian Family -- Commercial Morality -- The Household as a Source of Identity -- Making Children into Hanseats -- Conclusion -- 3 Cosmopolitan Conservatives -- Tradition and Modernity -- A Cosmopolitan Place -- Bremen in the International System -- Bremen as Hometown -- The Corporatist Order of the 1850s -- Wilhelm Kiesselbach: Organic Intellectual of Bremen's Elite -- Kiesselbach and America -- Transnational Conservatism -- Part II Exchanges in a Transnational World -- 4 Free Labor and Dependent Labor -- Free Labor and Improvement -- Sailors and Emigrants -- Transients and Residents -- Patriarchs Gone Bad -- Free Labor vs. Guild Labor -- Reluctant Modernizers -- 5 International Improvement -- Whigs and Democrats -- Hanseats in American Politics -- The Political Economy of Transatlantic Commerce and Communication -- The Bremish Effort to Gain the First Euro-American Steamer Line -- Winning Friends in Congress -- International Trade, National Principles, and Local Interests -- Bremish American Steamer Lines between 1846 and 1860.

Hanseats, Democrats, and Whigs: The Transnational Second Party System -- The Irony of Modernization -- 6 Nations, Races, and Empires -- Essential Assumptions -- The Elephant on the Commons -- Ships' Names as Cultural and Political Statements -- Socializing with the Other -- Race and Empire -- Nation and Culture -- Foreign Affairs -- Nation and Democracy -- Conclusion and Outlook -- Part III Decline of a Cosmopolitan Community -- 7 The End of Merchant Capital -- The End of Merchant Capital? -- A Changing World -- Changes in Business in the 1860s -- The New Economy and the Rise of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen -- Families or Stockholders? -- Crises and the Fall of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen -- Bremen's Integration into the Industrial-Capitalist World Market -- 8 Decisions and Divisions -- Bremen and the International Situation, 1859 -- Plotting a Course toward Prussia -- Cosmopolitans and Confederates -- A Dinner with Lincoln and a Mission to Richmond -- Dealing with Prussia -- Doubts about the Nation -- The End of Independence, 1866-1867 -- 9 Patriarchs into Patriots -- The Transformations of Meier and Schwab -- Family Business -- The Children of Schwab as American Patriots -- Hollywood Endings -- Bombing Nights -- Conclusion -- Bremen's Historical Role -- Conservative Modernizers -- Cosmopolitan Conservatives -- Capital and Community -- Nation, Religion, Gender, and Class -- Sources -- Manuscript and Printed Sources -- Baltimore -- Maryland Historical Society Library -- Archival Materials (Manuscripts Department) -- Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Government Records -- Other Holdings -- Holdings -- Bremen -- Staatsarchiv Bremen -- Archival Materials -- Newspapers -- Other Holdings -- New Haven -- Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives -- Archival Materials -- New York.

New York Public Library, Research Library, Special Collections Department -- Archival Materials -- Newspapers -- National Archives - Northeast Region, New York -- Archival Materials -- County Clerk, New York County, County Court House -- Archival Materials -- Other Sources -- Internet and Telecommunication -- Bibliography -- Index.

Studies the ties between America and Bremen in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of merchant capital in making an industrial-capitalist world economy.

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