The forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2015]
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| Edition: | English-language edition. |
| Series: | Studies in British and imperial history ;
v. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sources and outline
- Ch. 1. Naturalizing newcomers for prosperity (1660-1818)
- Early modern English naturalization law
- Naturalized subjects : their number and native lands
- The occupations of German immigrants to become English subjects
- Ch. 2. Promoting Anglo-German trade in the seventeenth century
- Reorganizing Anglo-German trade during the 1600s
- London's German merchants after 1660
- Lack of trust and understanding : challenges for both sides
- German merchant trade in London
- Trading regions and commodities
- Late-seventeenth-century German trade networks
- German merchants and London trade companies
- Fighting regulated companies
- Politics and commerce
- Ch. 3. Eighteenth-century German houses and trade
- London's German trade houses
- Starting out in London : the way to independence
- Trade houses and partners
- Chain migration, successors, and transnational alliances
- A German perspective on the development of bilateral trade
- The rise and organization of early "merchant empires"
- Connecting colonial empires
- Early merchant empires : flexible and vulnerable
- Ch. 4. German merchants in the Levant and Russia Companies
- British trade with Russia and the Levant
- Naturalized merchants in the Levant Company
- Naturalized merchants in the Russia Company
- The Russia Company's struggle with naturalization practices
- Naturalized subjects and the British factory in St. Petersburg
- The Bank of Scotland's right to naturalize
- Ch. 5. Boom and bankruptcy
- Insurance and trade at London's German trade houses
- London's early insurance business
- Networking Europe with the Americas and Asia
- The bankruptcy trend and the naturalized subjects' bankruptcies
- Waves of bankruptcy during the Coalition Wars
- The size of failed trade houses during the era of the Coalition Wars
- Muilman & Nantes
- Theophilus Blanckenhagen
- Persent & Bodecker
- Oom, Hoolboom, Knoblock & Co. and Hippius & Co.
- Estates of the failed
- Certificate of conformity and the ware broker : starting all over
- Commodity brokers and the freedom of the city
- Conclusion.