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The clash of modernity and an Amish buggy might be the first image that comes to one's mind when imagining Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today. But in the early to mid-eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the American Revolution, Lancaster's population had risen to nearly three thousand inhabitants; it stood as a center of commerce, industry, and trade. While the German-speaking population--Anabaptists as well as German Lutherans, Moravians, and German Calvinists--made up the majority, about...

The clash of modernity and an Amish buggy might be the first image that comes to one's mind when imagining Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today. But in the early to mid-eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the American Revolution, Lancaster's population had risen to nearly three thousand inhabitants; it stood as a center of commerce, industry, and trade. While the German-speaking population--Anabaptists as well as German Lutherans, Moravians, and German Calvinists--made up the majority, about...

As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has been available until now. The Fuggers of Augsburg offers a concise and engaging overview that builds on the latest scholarly literature and the author's own work on sixteenth-century merchant capitalism. Mark Haberlein traces the history of the family from the weaver Hans Fugger's immigration to the imperial city of Augsburg in 1367...

Es ist das Anliegen dieses Bandes, nach mehr als einem Jahrhundert der Welser-Forschung eine Zwischenbilanz der bisherigen wissenschaftlichen Bemuhungen zu ziehen und zugleich zu weiterer Beschaftigung mit einem uberaus facettenreichen Forschungsthema anzuregen. Aus dem Inhalt: I. Die Welser und Vohlin vom 13. bis zum fruhen 16. Jahrhundert, mit Beitragen von Peter Geffcken, Rolf Kieling. II. Handels- und Finanzbeziehungen, mit Beitragen von Wolfgang von Stromer, Mark Haberlein, Ekkehard Westermann, Reinhard Hildebrandt. III. Das Venezuela-Unternehmen, mit Beitragen von Jorg Denzer,...

Die vorliegende Festschrift geht von der Auffassung aus, da die Wurdigung eines hervorragenden Reprasentanten einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin bzw. eines bestimmten wissenschaftlichen Ansatzes umso glaubwurdiger ist, je konsequenter sie auf den einschlagigen Fachdiskurs bezogen wird. Ihre Herausgeber haben sich deshalb darauf verstandigt, die ublichen affirmativreputativen Elemente zuruckzustellen zugunsten einer Losung, die man den Versuch einer 'kritischen' Festschrift nennen konnte.