German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic (Paperback)

Index of tables, graphs, and maps; Glossary; Prologue; Introduction; Part I. Moorings of the Hanseatic Network: 1. Prudent pioneers: Hanseats in trans-Atlantic trade, 1798?1860; 2. The Hanseatic household: families, firms, and faith, 1815?64; 3. Cosmopolitan conservatives: home-town traditions and Western ideas in Bremish politics, 1806?60; Part II. Exchanges: In a Transnational World: 4. Free labor and dependent labor: from patronage to wage labor and social control, 1815?61; 5. International improvement: Hanseats, Hamiltonians, and Jacksonians, 1845?60; 6. Nations, races, and empires: Hanseats encounter the other, 1837?59; Part III. Decline of a Cosmopolitan Community: 7. The end of merchant-capital: crisis and adaptation in a world of industrial capitalism, 1857?90; 8. Decisions and divisions: Hanseatic responses to nation-making wars, 1859?67; 9. Patriarchs into patriots: Hanseats in a world of nation-states, 1867?1945; Conclusion; Appendix: maps; Sources; Bibliography.