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001 2012033797
003 DLC
005 20150804082240.0
008 120821s2013 dcua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781107017290
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050 00 $aHF458$b.M25 2013
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100 1 $aMaischak, Lars,$d1970-$eauthor.
245 10 $aGerman merchants in the nineteenth-century Atlantic /$cLars Maischak.
264 1 $aWashington, D.C. :$bGerman Historical Institute ;$aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $axxii, 295 pages :$billustrations$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aPublications of the German Historical Institute
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index.
520 $a"This study brings to life the community of trans-Atlantic merchants who established strong economic, political, and cultural ties between the United States and the city-republic of Bremen, Germany in the nineteenth century. Lars Maischak shows that the success of Bremen's merchants in helping make an industrial-capitalist world market created the conditions of their ultimate undoing: the new economy of industrial capitalism gave rise to democracy and the nation-state, undermining the political and economic power of this mercantile elite. Maischak argues that the experience of Bremen's merchants is representative of the transformation of the role of merchant capital in the first wave of globalization, with implications for our understanding of modern capitalism, in general"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Index of tables, graphs, and maps; Glossary; Prologue; 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; Appendix - maps; Sources; Bibliography.
610 20 $aHanseatic League$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMerchants$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMerchants$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aGermany$xCommerce$zUnited States.$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCommerce$zGermany.$xHistory$y19th century.
650 7 $aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2012033797-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2012033797-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2012033797-t.html