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...

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Published in:	Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 324 - 365
Main Author:	ZONDERMAN, ANDREW
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Summer2020
Subjects:	Merchants German Americans British colonies Commerce Immigrants Equality Colonial Pennsylvania, ca. 1600-1775 Political participation United States Pennsylvania
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost