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UNISA990001232840203316 |
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ARRIGHI, Giovanni |
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Il lungo XX secolo / Giovanni Arrighi ; traduzione d Mauro Di Meglio |
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UNINA9910818029303321 |
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Schulte Beerbühl Margrit |
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The forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 / / Margrit Schulte Beerbühl ; translated by Cynthia Klohr |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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[English-language edition.] |
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1 online resource (325 p.) |
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Studies in British and imperial history ; ; volume 3 |
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Merchants - England - London - History |
Germans - England - London - History |
Naturalization - Great Britain - History |
International trade - History |
Germany Commerce Great Britain History |
Great Britain Commerce Germany History |
London (England) Economic conditions |
London (England) Ethnic relations History |
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German-language edition entitled Deutsche Kaufleute in London : Welthandel und Einbürgerung (1660-1818); published by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, München, 2007. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sources and outline -- Ch. 1. Naturalizing newcomers for prosperity (1660-1818) -- Early modern English naturalization law -- Naturalized subjects : their number and native lands -- The occupations of German immigrants to become English subjects -- Ch. 2. Promoting Anglo-German trade in the seventeenth century -- Reorganizing Anglo-German trade during the 1600s -- London's German merchants after 1660 -- Lack of trust and understanding : challenges for both sides -- German merchant trade in London -- Trading regions and commodities -- Late-seventeenth-century German trade networks -- German merchants and London trade companies -- Fighting regulated companies -- Politics and commerce -- Ch. 3. Eighteenth-century German houses and trade -- London's German trade houses -- Starting |
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out in London : the way to independence -- Trade houses and partners -- Chain migration, successors, and transnational alliances -- A German perspective on the development of bilateral trade -- The rise and organization of early "merchant empires" -- Connecting colonial empires -- Early merchant empires : flexible and vulnerable -- Ch. 4. German merchants in the Levant and Russia Companies -- British trade with Russia and the Levant -- Naturalized merchants in the Levant Company -- Naturalized merchants in the Russia Company -- The Russia Company's struggle with naturalization practices -- Naturalized subjects and the British factory in St. Petersburg -- The Bank of Scotland's right to naturalize -- Ch. 5. Boom and bankruptcy -- Insurance and trade at London's German trade houses -- London's early insurance business -- Networking Europe with the Americas and Asia -- The bankruptcy trend and the naturalized subjects' bankruptcies -- Waves of bankruptcy during the Coalition Wars -- The size of failed trade houses during the era of the Coalition Wars -- Muilman & Nantes -- Theophilus Blanckenhagen -- Persent & Bodecker -- Oom, Hoolboom, Knoblock & Co. and Hippius & Co. -- Estates of the failed -- Certificate of conformity and the ware broker : starting all over -- Commodity brokers and the freedom of the city -- Conclusion. |
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The ""forgotten majority"" of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises. As the acquisition of British nationality was the admission ticket to Britain's commercial empire, it investigates the commercial function of British naturalization policy in the early m |
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UNINA9910824893903321 |
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Autore |
Baudendistel Rainer |
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Between bombs and good intentions : the Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 / / Rainer Baudendistel |
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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1-84545-035-3 |
1-78238-872-9 |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Human Rights in Context ; ; Volume 1 |
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Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 - War work - Red Cross |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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BETWEEN BOMBS AND GOOD INTENTIONS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. SWITZERLAND, THE ICRC AND THE RED CROSS MOVEMENT AT THE TIME OF THE ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR; 2. AN AFRICAN SOLFERINO: THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL RELIEF OPERATION IN ETHIOPIA; 3. RED CROSS WORK CHALLENGED: THE RESPECT OF THE EMBLEM; 4. THE HEART OF THE MATTER: ENSURING THE PROTECTION OF THE EMBLEM; 5. PRISONERS OF WAR: PROPAGANDA PREVAILS OVER REALITY; 6. 'RAIN THAT KILLS': THE ICRC AND FASCIST ITALY'S CHEMICAL WARFARE; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted again the precarious situation aid agencies find themselves in, caught as they are between the firing lines of the hostile parties, as they are trying to alleviate the plight of the civilian populations. This book offers an illuminating case study from a previous conflict, the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36, and of the humanitarian operation of the Red Cross during this period. Based on fresh material from Red Cross and Italian military archives, the author examines highly controversial subjects such as the Italian bombings of Red Cross field hospitals, the treatment of Prisoners of War by the two belligerents; and the effects of Fascist Italy’s massive use of poison gas against the Ethiopians. He shows how Mussolini and his ruthless regime, throughout the seven-month war, manipulated the |
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – the lead organization of the Red Cross in times of war, helped by the surprising political naïveté of its board. During this war the ICRC redefined its role in a debate, which is fascinating not least because of its relevance to current events, about the nature of humanitarian action. The organization decided to concern itself exclusively with matters falling under the Geneva Conventions and to give priority to bringing relief over expressing protest. It was a decision that should have far-reaching consequences, particularly for the period of World War II and the fate of Jews in Nazi concentration camps. |
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