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Immigrant and Entrepreneur - The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 (Hardcover): Rosalind Beiler Immigrant and Entrepreneur - The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 (Hardcover)
Rosalind Beiler
R1,801 Discovery Miles 18 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Immigrant and Entrepreneur examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with nearly no money; at the time of his death in 1752, his wealth outstripped that of the contemporary elite more than threefold. Through this in-depth look at an immigrant's path to achieving the American Dream, Beiler reevaluates the modern understanding of the entrepreneurial ideal and the immigrant experience in the colonial era.

The book follows Wistar's life from his family's German influences to the potential reasons behind his desire to emigrate and the networks he used to establish himself as a wealthy entrepreneur once he reached his adopted home. Beiler draws from Wistar's compelling story to examine the greater processes at work in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. Wistar's success exemplifies how European influence, patterns of adaptation, and an innovative cultivation of networks helped integrate immigrants into colonial America and the Atlantic world.

Immigrant and Entrepreneur - The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750 (Paperback, New): Rosalind Beiler Immigrant and Entrepreneur - The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750 (Paperback, New)
Rosalind Beiler
R952 Discovery Miles 9 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Immigrant and Entrepreneur examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with nearly no money; at the time of his death in 1752, his wealth outstripped that of the contemporary elite more than threefold. Through this in-depth look at an immigrant's path to achieving the American Dream, Beiler reevaluates the modern understanding of the entrepreneurial ideal and the immigrant experience in the colonial era.

The book follows Wistar's life from his family's German influences to the potential reasons behind his desire to emigrate and the networks he used to establish himself as a wealthy entrepreneur once he reached his adopted home. Beiler draws from Wistar's compelling story to examine the greater processes at work in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. Wistar's success exemplifies how European influence, patterns of adaptation, and an innovative cultivation of networks helped integrate immigrants into colonial America and the Atlantic world.

Soundings in Atlantic History - Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830 (Paperback): Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L.... Soundings in Atlantic History - Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830 (Paperback)
Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L. Denault; Contributions by Stephen D. Behrendt, Linda M. Heywood, John Thornton, …
R1,044 Discovery Miles 10 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany, and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David Hume.

In his Introduction Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.

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