Introduction: Promises and predicaments of the long eighteenth-century transatlantic world / Seohyon Jung -- Pirates, slaves, and profligate rogues : sailors of color in the eighteenth-century maritime world / Victoria Barnett-Woods -- "Commencing merchant" : forms of feeling and logics of...

"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...