Transnational networks : German migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914 / edited by John R. Davis, Stefan Manz, Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, John R., 1965-

Manz, Stefan.

Schulte Beerbühl, Margrit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germans--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Germans.

Immigrants--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Immigrants.

Transnationalism--History.

Transnationalism.

Germany--Emigration and immigration--History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Non-British migrants and their communities were an integral part of the multifaceted and multicultural nature of the British Empire. Their history, however, goes beyond a clearly delineated narrative of the Empire and includes transnational and truly global dimensions. German migrants and their transnational network creation within the structures of the British Empire, pursued over more than two centuries in a multitude of geographical settings, is the constitutive framework of the present volume. Eight contributions cover economic, cultural, scientific and political themes. The book questions traditional nation-centred narratives of the Empire as an exclusively British undertaking.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / John R. Davis , Stefan Manz and Margrit Schulte Beerbühl

Introduction: Germans in the British Empire / John R. Davis , Margrit Schulte Beerbühl and Stefan Manz

Migration and Business Ventures: German-speaking Migrants and Commercial Networks in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World / Mark Häberlein

German Merchants and the British Empire during the Eighteenth Century / Margrit Schulte Beerbühl

German Overseas Interests in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain / Ulrike Kirchberger

Friedrich Max Müller and the British Empire: A German Philologer and Imperial Culture in the Nineteenth Century / John R. Davis

Sugarbakers, Farmers, Goldminers: From Hanover via London to New Zealand / Horst Rössler

Agents of Transnationalism: German-Canadian Immigration Agents in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / Angelika Sauer

“The Core of this Dark Continent”: Ludwig Leichhardt’s Australian Explorations / Angus Nicholls

Promoting the German Navy in the British Empire: The Central League for German Navy Clubs Abroad, 1898–1918 / Stefan Manz

Index of Names and Places / John R. Davis , Stefan Manz and Margrit Schulte Beerbühl.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49623-1

9786613591463

90-04-22957-4

OCLC:

794328516

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004229570 DOI