German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic PDF
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more information – www.cambridge.org/9781107017290 GERMAN MERCHANTS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC Thisstudybringstolifethecommunityoftransatlanticmerchantswhoestablished strongeconomic,political,andculturaltiesbetweentheUnitedStatesandthecity- republicofBremen,Germany,inthenineteenthcentury.LarsMaischakshowsthat 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 theexperienceofBremen’smerchantsisrepresentativeofthetransformationofthe role of merchant capital in the first wave of globalization, with implications for ourunderstandingofmoderncapitalismingeneral. LarsMaischakisalecturerinthehistorydepartmentatCaliforniaStateUniversity, Fresno.Thisstudyisbasedonhisdissertation,forwhichtheFriendsoftheGerman HistoricalInstituteawardedhimtheFritzSternPrizeforthebestdissertationinthe fieldofGerman-AmericanHistoryin2006. publications of the german historical institute Editedby HartmutBerghoffwiththeassistanceofDavidLazar TheGermanHistoricalInstituteisacenterforadvancedstudyandresearchwhose purposeistoprovideapermanentbasisforscholarlycooperationamonghistorians from the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. The institute conducts,promotes,andsupportsresearchintobothAmericanandGermanpoli- tical,social,economic,andculturalhistory;transatlanticmigration,especiallyinthe nineteenthandtwentiethcenturies;andthehistoryofinternationalrelations,with specialemphasisontherolesplayedbytheUnitedStatesandGermany. 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Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Maischak,Lars,1970–author. Germanmerchantsinthenineteenth-centuryAtlantic/LarsMaischak. pages cm.–(PublicationsoftheGermanHistoricalInstitute) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-01729-0 1. HanseaticLeague–History–19thcentury. 2. Merchants–Germany– History–19thcentury. 3. Merchants–UnitedStates–History–19thcentury. 4. Germany–Commerce–UnitedStates.–History–19thcentury. 5. UnitedStates–Commerce–Germany.–History–19thcentury. I. Title. hf458.m25 2013 382.09430073–dc23 2012033797 isbn978-1-107-01729-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofurlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredto inthispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch Websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Contents ListofTables,Graphs,andMaps pageix Glossary xi Acknowledgments xiii Prologue xv Introduction 1 PartI. MooringsoftheHanseaticNetwork 1 PrudentPioneers:HanseatsinTransatlantic Trade,1798–1860 21 2 TheHanseaticHousehold:Families,Firms,and Faith,1815–1864 50 3 CosmopolitanConservatives:HometownTraditionsand WesternIdeasinBremishPolitics,1806–1860 82 PartII. ExchangesinaTransnationalWorld 4 FreeLaborandDependentLabor:FromPatronagetoWage LaborandSocialControl,1810–1861 111 5 InternationalImprovement:Hanseats,Hamiltonians,and Jacksonians,1845–1860 131 6 Nations,Races,andEmpires:HanseatsEncounterthe Other,1837–1859 159 PartIII. DeclineofaCosmopolitanCommunity 7 TheEndofMerchantCapital:CrisisandAdaptationina WorldofIndustrialCapitalism,1857–1890 197 8 DecisionsandDivisions:HanseaticResponsesto Nation-MakingWars,1859–1867 221 vii viii Contents 9 PatriarchsintoPatriots:HanseatsinaWorldof Nation-States,1867–1945 250 Conclusion 263 Sources 273 Bibliography 277 Index 291
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