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050 4 _aHF458 -- .M357 2013eb
082 0 _a382.0943073
100 1 _aMaischak, Lars.
245 1 0 _aGerman Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
264 4 _c©2013.
300 _a1 online resource (320 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aPublications of the German Historical Institute
505 0 _aCover -- 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.
505 8 _aHanseats, 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.
505 8 _aNew 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.
520 _aStudies the ties between America and Bremen in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of merchant capital in making an industrial-capitalist world economy.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aHanseatic League -- History -- 19th century.
650 0 _aMerchants -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
650 0 _aMerchants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
650 0 _aGermany -- Commerce -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
650 0 _aUnited States -- Commerce -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMaischak, Lars
_tGerman Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
_dNew York : Cambridge University Press,c2013
_z9781107017290
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aPublications of the German Historical Institute
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