German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Publications of the German Historical Institute
ISBN-10
1107017297
ISBN-13
9781107017290
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 29th, 2013
Print length
315 Pages
Weight
600 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 16.30 x 2.30 cms
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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.
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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