German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic (Publications of the German Historical Institute) - Hardcover

Maischak, Lars

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107017297 ISBN 13: 9781107017290

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

Based on an examination of the merchant elite of the city-republic of Bremen and the trans-Atlantic ties they established in trading with the United States in the nineteenth century, this study illuminates the role of merchant capital in the making of an industrial-capitalist world economy.

About the Author:

Lars Maischak is a lecturer in the history department at California State University, Fresno. This study is based on Maischak's dissertation, for which the Friends of the German Historical Institute awarded him the Fritz Stern Prize for the best dissertation in the field of German-American History in 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107017297
• ISBN 13: 9781107017290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 315