"This study brings to life the community of trans-Atlantic merchants who established strong economic, political, and cultural ties between the United States and the city-republic of Bremen, Germany in the nineteenth century. Lars Maischak shows that the success of Bremen's merchants in helping...

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...