Author: Lars Maischak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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.
German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
Author: Lars Maischak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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.
More Lasting Than Brass
Author: Peter H. Judd
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Skillfully joining genealogy with history, this volume chronicles and illuminates in accessible narrative the whole lives of members of a single strand of family through seven generations.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Skillfully joining genealogy with history, this volume chronicles and illuminates in accessible narrative the whole lives of members of a single strand of family through seven generations.
Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914
Author: William D. Wray
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674576650
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674576650
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Commerce and Culture
Author: Robert Lee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317163893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and North America which represent important and innovative research on this topic. They cover two broad themes. First, the role of business culture in determining commercial success, in particular the importance of familial, religious, ethnic and associational connections in the working lives of merchants and the impact of business practices on family life. Second, the wider institutional and political framework for business operations, in particular the relationship between the political economy of trade and the cultural world of merchants in an era of transition from personal to corporate structures. These key themes are developed in three separate sections, each with four contributions. They focus, in turn, on the role of culture in building and preserving businesses; the interplay between institutions, networks and power in determining commercial success or failure; and the significance of faith and the family in influencing business strategies and the direction of merchant enterprise. The wider historiographical context of the individual contributions is discussed in an extended introductory chapter which sets out the overall agenda of the book and provides a broader comparative framework for analysing the specific issues covered in each of the three sections. Taken together the collection offers an important addition to the available literature in this field and will attract a wide readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a longer-term perspective.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317163893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and North America which represent important and innovative research on this topic. They cover two broad themes. First, the role of business culture in determining commercial success, in particular the importance of familial, religious, ethnic and associational connections in the working lives of merchants and the impact of business practices on family life. Second, the wider institutional and political framework for business operations, in particular the relationship between the political economy of trade and the cultural world of merchants in an era of transition from personal to corporate structures. These key themes are developed in three separate sections, each with four contributions. They focus, in turn, on the role of culture in building and preserving businesses; the interplay between institutions, networks and power in determining commercial success or failure; and the significance of faith and the family in influencing business strategies and the direction of merchant enterprise. The wider historiographical context of the individual contributions is discussed in an extended introductory chapter which sets out the overall agenda of the book and provides a broader comparative framework for analysing the specific issues covered in each of the three sections. Taken together the collection offers an important addition to the available literature in this field and will attract a wide readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a longer-term perspective.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
More Books
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
Trade Promotion Series
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
The American Neptune
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A quarterly journal of maritime history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A quarterly journal of maritime history.
Marine Engineer and Motorship Builder
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering International
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description