German expansionism, imperial liberalism and the United States, 1776-1945

Cover
Contents
List of Tables, Graphs, and Maps
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Prologue
	Globalization and Its Enemies
	The Political Economy of Globalization
	The Politics of Globalization
	Pioneers of Globalization
Part I Moorings of the Hanseatic Network
1 Prudent Pioneers
	Bremen’s Merchant Capitalists in America
	Bremen as a Liberal, Free-Trading Port
	Hanseats as Economic Conservatives
	Small Firms, Big Business
	Old Boys’ Networks
	Family Networks
		The Lürman Family
		The Meier Family
	Conclusion
2 The Hanseatic Household
	The Spirit of the Hanseatic Household
	Christian Seafaring
	The Calvinist Axis
	Mothers, Sisters, and Wives
	Hanseatic Women and the Family Fortune
	Husband and Wife in the Christian Family
	Commercial Morality
	The Household as a Source of Identity
	Making Children into Hanseats
	Conclusion
3 Cosmopolitan Conservatives
	Tradition and Modernity
	A Cosmopolitan Place
	Bremen in the International System
	Bremen as Hometown
	The Corporatist Order of the 1850s
	Wilhelm Kiesselbach: Organic Intellectual of Bremen’s Elite
	Kiesselbach and America
	Transnational Conservatism
Part II Exchanges in a Transnational World
4 Free Labor and Dependent Labor
	Free Labor and Improvement
	Sailors and Emigrants
	Transients and Residents
	Patriarchs Gone Bad
	Free Labor vs. Guild Labor
	Reluctant Modernizers
5 International Improvement
	Whigs and Democrats
	Hanseats in American Politics
	The Political Economy of Transatlantic Commerce and Communication
	The Bremish Effort to Gain the First Euro-American Steamer Line
	Winning Friends in Congress
	International Trade, National Principles, and Local Interests
	Bremish American Steamer Lines between 1846 and 1860
	Hanseats, Democrats, and Whigs: The Transnational Second Party System
	The Irony of Modernization
6 Nations, Races, and Empires
	Essential Assumptions
	The Elephant on the Commons
	Ships’ Names as Cultural and Political Statements
	Socializing with the Other
	Race and Empire
	Nation and Culture
	Foreign Affairs
	Nation and Democracy
	Conclusion and Outlook
Part III Decline of a Cosmopolitan Community
7 The End of Merchant Capital
	The End of Merchant Capital?
	A Changing World
	Changes in Business in the 1860s
	The New Economy and the Rise of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen
	Families or Stockholders?
	Crises and the Fall of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen
	Bremen’s Integration into the Industrial-Capitalist World Market
8 Decisions and Divisions
	Bremen and the International Situation, 1859
	Plotting a Course toward Prussia
	Cosmopolitans and Confederates
	A Dinner with Lincoln and a Mission to Richmond
	Dealing with Prussia
	Doubts about the Nation
	The End of Independence, 1866–1867
9 Patriarchs into Patriots
	The Transformations of Meier and Schwab
	Family Business
	The Children of Schwab as American Patriots
	Hollywood Endings
	Bombing Nights
Conclusion
	Bremen’s Historical Role
	Conservative Modernizers
	Cosmopolitan Conservatives
	Capital and Community
	Nation, Religion, Gender, and Class
Sources
	Manuscript and Printed Sources
		Baltimore
			Maryland Historical Society Library
				Archival Materials (Manuscripts Department)
			Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Government Records
	Other Holdings
	Holdings
		Bremen
			Staatsarchiv Bremen
	Archival Materials
	Newspapers
	Other Holdings
		New Haven
			Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives
	Archival Materials
		New York
			New York Public Library, Research Library, Special Collections Department
	Archival Materials
	Newspapers
		National Archives – Northeast Region, New York
			Archival Materials
			County Clerk, New York County, County Court House
				Archival Materials
		Other Sources
			Internet and Telecommunication
Bibliography
Index