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1 online resource (195 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Transnational Networks; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Germans in the British Empire; Migration and Business Ventures: German-speaking Migrants and Commercial Networks in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World; German Merchants and the British Empire during the Eighteenth Century; German Overseas Interests in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain; Sugarbakers, Farmers, Goldminers: From Hanover via London to New Zealand; Agents of Transnationalism: German-Canadian Immigration Agents in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Index of Names and Places. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Germans -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
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Germans. |
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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History. |
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Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
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Immigrants. |
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Transnationalism -- History.
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Transnationalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Davis, John R., 1965-
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Manz, Stefan.
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Schulte Beerbühl, Margrit.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, John R. Transnational Networks : German Migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914. Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004223493 |
| ISBN |
9789004229570 (electronic book) |
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9004229574 (electronic book) |
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9004223495 |
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9789004223493 |
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