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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographic references

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illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Immigrant entrepreneurship

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

963944433

Responsibility statement

edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann

Series statement

Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Supplement,, 12, 1048-9134

Sub title

the German-American experience since 1700

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

Table Of 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

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German-American experience since 1700

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