German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
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German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic

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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 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables, Graphs, and Maps
  4. Glossary
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prologue
  7. Part I Moorings of the Hanseatic Network
  8. 1 Prudent Pioneers
  9. 2 The Hanseatic Household
  10. 3 Cosmopolitan Conservatives
  11. Part II Exchanges in a Transnational World
  12. 4 Free Labor and Dependent Labor
  13. 5 International Improvement
  14. 6 Nations, Races, and Empires
  15. Part III Decline of a Cosmopolitan Community
  16. 7 The End of Merchant Capital
  17. 8 Decisions and Divisions
  18. 9 Patriarchs into Patriots
  19. Conclusion
  20. Sources
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index