The forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 / Margrit Schulte Beerbühl ; translated by Cynthia Klohr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulte Beerbühl, Margrit, author.

Contributor:

Klohr, Cynthia, translator.

Series:

Studies in British and imperial history ; v. 3.

Studies in British and imperial history ; volume 3

Standardized Title:

Deutsche Kaufleute in London. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchants--England--London--History.

Merchants.

Germans--England--London--History.

Germans.

Naturalization--Great Britain--History.

Naturalization.

International trade--History.

International trade.

Germany--Commerce--Great Britain--History.

Germany.

Great Britain--Commerce--Germany--History.

Great Britain.

London (England)--Economic conditions.

London (England).

London (England)--Ethnic relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 m

Contents:

Sources and outline

Ch. 1. Naturalizing newcomers for prosperity (1660-1818)

Early modern English naturalization law

Naturalized subjects : their number and native lands

The occupations of German immigrants to become English subjects

Ch. 2. Promoting 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 merchant 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

Ch. 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 empires"

Connecting colonial empires

Early merchant empires : flexible and vulnerable

Ch. 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 subjects and the British factory in St. Petersburg

The Bank of Scotland's right to naturalize

Ch. 5. Boom 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 the ware broker : starting all over

Commodity brokers and the freedom of the city

Conclusion.

Notes:

German-language edition entitled Deutsche Kaufleute in London : Welthandel und Einbürgerung (1660-1818); published by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, München, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-850-5

1-78238-448-0

OCLC:

896787094