Forgotten Majority. German merchants in London, naturalization and global trade, 1660-1815

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Assesses the causes of the migration of German merchants to London, the establishment of their businesses there, and the global reach of their enterprise. As the acquisition of British nationality was the admission ticket to Britain's commercial empire, it investigates the commercial function of British naturalization policy. Chapters include: 'Naturalizing newcomers for prosperity (1660-1818)'; 'Promoting Anglo-German trade in the seventeenth century'; 'Eighteenth century German houses and trade'; 'German merchants in the Levant and Russia Companies'; 'Boom and bankruptcy'