Table of Contents
Contents: Commerce and culture: a critical assessment of the role of cultural factors in commerce and trade from c.1750 to the early 20th century, Robert Lee; From Wolverhampton to Calcutta: the low origins of merchant enterprise, Andrew Popp; The Australian Company: operations and finances, Michael Nix; Bridges to the East: European merchants and business practices in India and China, Christof Dejung; 'To save the commercial community of New York': panicked business elites in 1837, Jessica Lepler; The entrepreneurial activity of Dimitrios and Stephanos Manos in Central Europe in the 19th century, Ikaros Madouvalos; The rise and fall of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen, Bremen's consul in New York, 1859–61, Lars Maischak; The role of the business elite in the social, economic and cultural life of the Russian provincial city, Elena Apkarimova; The commercial culture of spiritual kinship among German immigrant merchants in London c.1750–1830, Margit Schulte Beerbühl; To have and to hold? Marital connections and family relationships in Salem, Massachusetts, 1755–1810, Lesley Doig; 'A most terrific passage': putting faith into Atlantic steam navigation, Crosbie Smith; Index.
