Transnational Networks ：German Migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914 ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：German Migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914

Publication series ：1

Author： Davis   John;Manz   Stefan;Beerbühl   Margrit Schulte  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9789004229570

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004223493

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004223493

Subject： K5 European History

Language： ENG

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Description

The volume questions traditional nation-centred narratives of the Empire as an exclusively British undertaking by concentrating on the transnational networks of German migrants, pursued over more than two centuries in a multitude of geographical settings within the British Empire.

Chapter

Transnational Networks

pp.：  3 – 3

Copyright

pp.：  4 – 4

Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  7 – 8

Introduction: Germans in the British Empire

pp.：  9 – 26

Migration and Business Ventures: German-speaking Migrants and Commercial Networks in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

pp.：  27 – 46

German Merchants and the British Empire during the Eighteenth Century

pp.：  47 – 66

German Overseas Interests in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

pp.：  67 – 86

Friedrich Max Müller and the British Empire: A German Philologer and Imperial Culture in the Nineteenth Century

pp.：  87 – 108

Sugarbakers, Farmers, Goldminers: From Hanover via London to New Zealand

pp.：  109 – 124

Agents of Transnationalism: German-Canadian Immigration Agents in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

pp.：  125 – 148

“The Core of this Dark Continent”: Ludwig Leichhardt’s Australian Explorations

pp.：  149 – 170

Promoting the German Navy in the British Empire: The Central League for German Navy Clubs Abroad, 1898–1918

pp.：  171 – 188

Index of Names and Places

pp.：  189 – 195

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