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English-language edition

New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]

1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations, portraits

ISBN 9781782384489 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781782384472 (hardback : acid-free paper)

Studies in British and imperial history ; volume 3

Print version: Schulte Beerbuhl, Margrit. Forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815. New York : Berghahn Books, [2015] Studies in British and imperial history ; volume 3 ISBN 9781782384472

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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 ---

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