Margrit Schulte Beerbühl

Gebundenes Buch

The Forgotten Majority

German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815

Beschreibung

Assesses the causes of the migration of German merchants to London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the establishment of their businesses and the global reach of their enterprises. Investigates trhe commercial function of British naturalization policy in the early modern period Considers the risks of failure and their chances for a new beginning in a foreign environment

Autor

Margrit Schulte Beerbühl is Professor of Modern History of the University of Düsseldorf. Her publications include Spinning the Commercial Web (Frankfurt 2004, ed. with Jörg Voegele), Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain (München 2007, ed. with Stefan Manz et al.),  and Transnational Networks: German Migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914 (Leiden 2012, ed. with Stefan Manz et al.).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781782384472
• ISBN-10: 1782384472
• Artikelnr.: 41773075