An Empire of Merchants? German Shipping, Commercial Interests and Imperial Ambitions from Latin America to Hamburg, 1888−1918.
Historians of Germany and of Germans have increasingly turned a global, transnational lens on their subject. This turn has been especially fruitful for Imperial Germany (1871–1918) and its overseas imperial expansion and Weltpolitik. At the same time, global and transnational approaches demand histo...
| Publicado en: | German History Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 69 - 89 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2025
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