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The Resource Immigrant entrepreneurship : the German-American experience since 1700, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann

Immigrant entrepreneurship : the German-American experience since 1700, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann

Editor
Contributor
Summary
"Immigrant Entrepreneurship" questions notions of American exceptionalism, situates U.S. history in a transnational framework and studies the formation and changes of an immigrant nation and its business community over a period of nearly three hundred years"--Page 5
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
348 pages
Note
Title from cover
Contents
  • Immigrant entrepreneurship as a challenge for historiography / Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann
  • Entrepreneur biographies as microhistories of X / Jürgen Finger
  • Why biographies? Actors, agencies, and the analysis of immigrant entrepreneurship / Uwe Spiekermann
  • The immigrant entrepreneurship project: rationale, design, and outcome / Hartmut Berghoff
  • A credit to their nation: Eastern European Jewish immigrant "bankers," credit access, and the transnational business of mass migration, 1873-1914 / Rebecca Kobrin
  • Johann Christoph Sauer: pioneer of the German-American press / Hans Leamann
  • Johann Andreas Albrecht: making rifles in eighteenth-century Moravian economies / Scott Paul Gordon
  • Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): social entrepreneur and suffragette / Stephani Richards-Wilson
  • A reputation for cross-cultural business: Henry Villard and German investment in the United States / Christopher Kobrak
  • "A most remarkable man": Adolphus Busch and the evolution of the American brewing industry / Timothy J. Holian
  • Jacob H. Schiff, banker and philanthropist / Bernice Heilbrunn
  • Making entertainment American: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. / Heather Hester
  • An ordinary man among titans: the life of Walter P. Spreckels / Uwe Spiekermann
  • Builder of the liberal consensus: Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) / Tim Schanetzky
  • "My Golden Gut" and other stories: how Lillian Vernon built her brand / Ute Mehnert
  • Political ideology and economic activity: Peter Thiel's libertarian entrepreneurship / Meghan O'Dea
Instance
Label
Immigrant entrepreneurship : the German-American experience since 1700
Title
Immigrant entrepreneurship
Title remainder
the German-American experience since 1700
Statement of responsibility
edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann
Title variation
German-American experience since 1700
Contributor
Editor
Issuing body
Issuing body
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Immigrant Entrepreneurship" questions notions of American exceptionalism, situates U.S. history in a transnational framework and studies the formation and changes of an immigrant nation and its business community over a period of nearly three hundred years"--Page 5
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Cataloging source
GZU
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1963-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Berghoff, Hartmut
  • Spiekermann, Uwe
  • German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Series statement
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Supplement,
Series volume
12
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • German Americans
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Immigrants
Label
Immigrant entrepreneurship : the German-American experience since 1700, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Title from cover
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographic references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Immigrant entrepreneurship as a challenge for historiography / Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann -- Entrepreneur biographies as microhistories of X / Jürgen Finger -- Why biographies? Actors, agencies, and the analysis of immigrant entrepreneurship / Uwe Spiekermann -- The immigrant entrepreneurship project: rationale, design, and outcome / Hartmut Berghoff -- A credit to their nation: Eastern European Jewish immigrant "bankers," credit access, and the transnational business of mass migration, 1873-1914 / Rebecca Kobrin -- Johann Christoph Sauer: pioneer of the German-American press / Hans Leamann -- Johann Andreas Albrecht: making rifles in eighteenth-century Moravian economies / Scott Paul Gordon -- Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): social entrepreneur and suffragette / Stephani Richards-Wilson -- A reputation for cross-cultural business: Henry Villard and German investment in the United States / Christopher Kobrak -- "A most remarkable man": Adolphus Busch and the evolution of the American brewing industry / Timothy J. Holian -- Jacob H. Schiff, banker and philanthropist / Bernice Heilbrunn -- Making entertainment American: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. / Heather Hester -- An ordinary man among titans: the life of Walter P. Spreckels / Uwe Spiekermann -- Builder of the liberal consensus: Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) / Tim Schanetzky -- "My Golden Gut" and other stories: how Lillian Vernon built her brand / Ute Mehnert -- Political ideology and economic activity: Peter Thiel's libertarian entrepreneurship / Meghan O'Dea
Control code
ocn963944433
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
348 pages
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)963944433
Label
Immigrant entrepreneurship : the German-American experience since 1700, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann
Publication
Note
Title from cover
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographic references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Immigrant entrepreneurship as a challenge for historiography / Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann -- Entrepreneur biographies as microhistories of X / Jürgen Finger -- Why biographies? Actors, agencies, and the analysis of immigrant entrepreneurship / Uwe Spiekermann -- The immigrant entrepreneurship project: rationale, design, and outcome / Hartmut Berghoff -- A credit to their nation: Eastern European Jewish immigrant "bankers," credit access, and the transnational business of mass migration, 1873-1914 / Rebecca Kobrin -- Johann Christoph Sauer: pioneer of the German-American press / Hans Leamann -- Johann Andreas Albrecht: making rifles in eighteenth-century Moravian economies / Scott Paul Gordon -- Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): social entrepreneur and suffragette / Stephani Richards-Wilson -- A reputation for cross-cultural business: Henry Villard and German investment in the United States / Christopher Kobrak -- "A most remarkable man": Adolphus Busch and the evolution of the American brewing industry / Timothy J. Holian -- Jacob H. Schiff, banker and philanthropist / Bernice Heilbrunn -- Making entertainment American: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. / Heather Hester -- An ordinary man among titans: the life of Walter P. Spreckels / Uwe Spiekermann -- Builder of the liberal consensus: Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) / Tim Schanetzky -- "My Golden Gut" and other stories: how Lillian Vernon built her brand / Ute Mehnert -- Political ideology and economic activity: Peter Thiel's libertarian entrepreneurship / Meghan O'Dea
Control code
ocn963944433
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
348 pages
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)963944433

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