Immigrant Entrepreneurship : The German-American Experience since 1700

Content

• Introduction: Immigrant Entrepreneurship as a Challenge for Historiography

  p. 5

  Berghoff, Hartmut; Spiekermann, Uwe

• Entrepreneur Biographies as Microhistories of X

  p. 19

  Finger, Jürgen

• Why Biographies?: Actors, Agencies, and the Analysis of Immigrant Entrepreneurship

  p. 37

  Spiekermann, Uwe

• The Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project: Rationale, Design, and Outcome

  p. 53

  Berghoff, Hartmut

• A Credit to Their nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant “Bankers,” Credit Access, and the Transnational Business of Mass Migration, 1873-1914

  p. 69

  Kobrin, Rebecca

• Johann Christoph Sauer: Pioneer of the German-American Press

  p. 93

  Leaman, Hans

• Johann Andreas Albrecht: Making Rifles in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Economies

  p. 113

  Gordon, Scott Paul

• Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): Social Entrepreneur and Suffragette

  p. 141

  Richards-Wilson, Stephani

• A Reputation for Cross-Cultural Business: Henry Villard and German Investment in the United States

  p. 167

  Kobrak, Christopher

• “A Most Remarkable Man": Adolphus Busch and the Evolution of the American Brewing Industry

  p. 187

  Holian, Timothy J.,

• Jacob H. Schiff, Banker and Philanthropist

  p. 213

  Heilbrunn, Bernice

• Making Entertainment American: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

  p. 241

  Hester, Heather

• An Ordinary Man among Titans: The Life of Walter P. Spreckels

  p. 263

  Spiekermann, Uwe

• Builder of the Liberal Consensus: Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)

  p. 285

  Schanetzky, Tim

• “My Golden Gut” and Other Stories: How Lillian Vernon Built Her Brand

  p. 309

  Mehnert, Ute

• Political Ideology and Economic Activity: Peter Thiel’s Libertarian Entrepreneurship

  p. 333

  O’Dea, Meghan