The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815
Year: 2014
Type: book
Abstract: List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Sources and Outline Chapter 1. Naturalizing Newcomers for Prosperity (1660-1818) Early Modern English Naturalization Law Naturalized Subjects: Their Numbers and Native Lands The Occupations of German Immigrants who became English Subjects Chapter 2. Furthering 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 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 Chapter 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 Connecting Colonial Empires Early Empires - flexible and vulnerable Chapter 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 Citizens and the Russia Company's Office in St. Petersburg The Bank of Scotland's Right to Naturalize Chapter 5. Favorable Markets 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 Brokering Commodities: Starting all over Commodity Brokers and the Freedom of the City Conclusion Historical Sources Bibliography Index
Source: Medical Entomology and Zoology
Authors: Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, Cynthia Klohr
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W877357669