Binding and Unwinding the British Empire: Philadelphia's German Merchants as Consumer and Political Revolutionaries.
This article explores the German-speaking merchant community that arose in mid-eighteenth-century Philadelphia, and its members' efforts to integrate themselves and fellow Central European immigrants into British systems of commerce, credit, law, and politics. These naturalized merchants developed c...
| Publicado en: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 324 - 365 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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