Globalized Peripheries

Constructing Atlantic Peripheries: A Critical View of the Historiography - Jutta Wimmler and Klaus Weber Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonization of Guiana, and Climates in the Caribbean, c. 1760s-1780s - Bernhard Struck A Fierce Competition! Silesian Linens and Indian Cottons on the West African Coast in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries - Anka Steffen Prussia's New Gate to the World: Stettin's Overseas Imports 1720-1770 and Prussia's Rise to Power - Jutta Wimmler Luxuries from the Periphery: The Global Dimensions of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Rhubarb Trade - Friederike Gehrmann Atlantic Sugar and Central Europe: Sugar Importers in Hamburg and their Trade with Bordeaux and Lisbon, 1733-1798 - Torsten dos Santos Arnold 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 - Klemens Kaps A Cartel on the Periphery. Wupper Valley Merchants and their Strategies in Atlantic Trade (1790s-1820s) - Anne Sophie Overkamp Linen and Merchants from the Duchy of Berg, Lower Saxony and Westphalia and their Global Trade in Eighteenth-Century London - Margrit Schulte Beerbühl Ambiguous Passages: Non-Europeans Brought to Europe by the Moravian Brethren during the Eighteenth Century - Josef Köstlbauer German Emigrants as a Commodity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World - Alexandra Gittermann Reorienting Atlantic World Financial Capitalism: America and the German States - David K. Thomson Afterword - Göran Rydén