Across the German sea [electronic resource] early modern Scottish connections with the wider Elbe-Weser region / by Kathrin Zickermann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zickermann, Kathrin.

Series:

Northern world ; Volume 62.

The Northern World : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, Economies and Cultures ; Volume 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scots--Elbe River Region (Czech Republic and Germany)--Politics and government.

Scots.

Scots--Germany--Weser River Region--History.

Scotland--Relations--Elbe River Region (Czech Republic and Germany).

Scotland.

Elbe River Region (Czech Republic and Germany)--Relations--Scotland.

Elbe River Region (Czech Republic and Germany).

Scotland--Relations--Germany--Weser River Region.

Weser River Region (Germany)--Relations--Scotland.

Weser River Region (Germany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, c2013.

Summary:

In Across the German Sea: Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region Zickermann analyses the commercial, maritime and military relations between Scotland and the German cities (Hamburg, Bremen) and territories (Bremen and Verden, Holstein, Braunschweig-Lüneburg) located alongside the lower parts of the rivers Elbe and Weser. Based on a wealth of British, German and Scandinavian archival material, the study demonstrates the importance of the region for Scottish commodity exchange and network building across political borders, whilst contributing significantly to our understanding of the formation of Scottish communities abroad. It also shows that Scottish commercial, political, military and religious activities within the region – which featured a Danish-Norwegian and Swedish dimension - were intertwined and cannot be studied in isolation.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1. Understanding the Wider Elbe-Weser Region

2. Commercial Links and Mercantile Networks c. 1590–1730

3. Political and Military Networks c. 1630–1707

4. Building a Reformed Community? Exiles on the Elbe, 1630–1730

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Descripion based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 27, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-24958-3

OCLC:

844957225

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004249585 DOI