TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maischak,Lars
TI  - German merchants in the nineteenth-century Atlantic
T2  - Publications of the German Historical Institute
SN  - 9781139083645
AV  - HF458 .M25 2013eb
U1  - 382.0943/073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Washington, D.C., Cambridge
PB  - German Historical Institute, Cambridge University Press
KW  - Hanseatic League
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Hanse
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - fast
KW  - Städtebund Die Hanse
KW  - gnd
KW  - Merchants
KW  - Germany
KW  - United States
KW  - Commerçants
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economic History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Exports & Imports
KW  - International
KW  - General
KW  - Marketing
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - International Relations
KW  - Trade & Tariffs
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Kaufmann
KW  - Fernhandel
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index; 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
N2  - "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 helping make an industrial-capitalist world market created the conditions of their ultimate undoing: the new economy of industrial capitalism gave rise to democracy and the nation-state, undermining the political and economic power of this mercantile elite. Maischak argues that the experience of Bremen's merchants is representative of the transformation of the role of merchant capital in the first wave of globalization, with implications for our understanding of modern capitalism, in general"--
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