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The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815 (Studies in British & Imperial History)
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
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Hardcover. he "forgotten majority" of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the 18th century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses.. Translator(s): Klohr, Cynthia. Series: Studies in British & Imperial History. Num Pages: 372 pages, 15 illus., 28 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 650.
The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises. As the acquisition of British nationality was the admission ticket to Britain’s commercial empire, it investigates the commercial function of British naturalization policy in the early modern period, while also considering the risks of failure and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Series
Studies in British & Imperial History
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782384472
SKU
V9781782384472
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99-15
About Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
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.).
Reviews for The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815 (Studies in British & Imperial History)
“This is undoubtedly an important piece of work. It brings together a wide range of archival data and secondary material (in both English and German) to provide an innovative and incisive analysis of the role of nationalized German-born merchants in London between the mid-seventeenth century and the end of the Napoleonic Wars….[It] represents an important contribution to existing scholarship relating ... Read more