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

• Superior document: Studies in British and imperial history ; volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Schulte Beerbuhl, Margrit,
• TeilnehmendeR: Klohr, Cynthia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Berghahn Books,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: English-language edition.
• Language: English; German
• Series: Studies in British and imperial history ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 pages) :; illustrations, portraits.
• Notes: German-language edition entitled Deutsche Kaufleute in London : Welthandel und Einburgerung (1660-1818); published by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, Munchen, 2007.

Table of 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.