Transnational networks : : German migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914 / / edited by John R. Davis, Stefan Manz, Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl.

• TeilnehmendeR: Davis, John R., 1965-; Manz, Stefan.; Schulte Beerbuhl, Margrit.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Non-British migrants and their communities were an integral part of the multifaceted and multicultural nature of the British Empire. Their history, however, goes beyond a clearly delineated narrative of the Empire and includes transnational and truly global dimensions. German migrants and their tran...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / John R. Davis , Stefan Manz and Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
• Introduction: Germans in the British Empire / John R. Davis , Margrit Schulte Beerbühl and Stefan Manz
• Migration and Business Ventures: German-speaking Migrants and Commercial Networks in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World / Mark Häberlein
• German Merchants and the British Empire during the Eighteenth Century / Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
• German Overseas Interests in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain / Ulrike Kirchberger
• Friedrich Max Müller and the British Empire: A German Philologer and Imperial Culture in the Nineteenth Century / John R. Davis
• Sugarbakers, Farmers, Goldminers: From Hanover via London to New Zealand / Horst Rössler
• Agents of Transnationalism: German-Canadian Immigration Agents in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / Angelika Sauer
• “The Core of this Dark Continent”: Ludwig Leichhardt’s Australian Explorations / Angus Nicholls
• Promoting the German Navy in the British Empire: The Central League for German Navy Clubs Abroad, 1898–1918 / Stefan Manz
• Index of Names and Places / John R. Davis , Stefan Manz and Margrit Schulte Beerbühl.