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 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.