Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Abbreviations xiv
7. 1 Constructing Atlantic Peripheries: A Critical View of the Historiography 1
8. 2 Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonization of Guiana, and Climates in the Caribbean, c. 1760s to 1780s 19
9. 3 A Fierce Competition! Silesian Linens and Indian Cottons on the West African Coast in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 37
10. 4 Prussia’s New Gate to the World: Stettin’s Overseas Imports (1720–1770) and Prussia’s Rise to Power 57
11. 5 Luxuries from the Periphery: The Global Dimensions of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Rhubarb Trade 81
12. 6 Atlantic Sugar and Central Europe: Sugar Importers in Hamburg and their Trade with Bordeaux and Lisbon, 1733–1798 99
13. 7 A Gateway to the Spanish Atlantic? The Habsburg Port City of Trieste as Intermediary in Commodity Flows between the Habsburg Monarchy and Spain in the Eighteenth Century 117
14. 8 A Cartel on the Periphery: Wupper Valley Merchants and their Strategies in Atlantic Trade (1790s–1820s) 133
15. 9 Linen and Merchants from the Duchy of Berg, Lower Saxony and Westphalia, and their Global Trade in Eighteenth-Century London 151
16. 10 Ambiguous Passages: Non-Europeans Brought to Europe by the Moravian Brethren during the Eighteenth Century 169
17. 11 German Emigrants as a Commodity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 187
18. 12 Reorienting Atlantic World Financial Capitalism: America and the German States 205
19. 13 Afterword 223
20. Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited 235
21. Index 261