Bibliography of GHI Research

This bibliography page presents selected articles, conference reports, edited volumes, research guides and monographs produced by the German Historical Institute which are focused on the history of German-American migration and the German diaspora more generally.

• “Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present,” The German Historical Institute at 25, 8 (2012).
• “Introduction: Immigrant Entrepreneurship as a Challenge for Historiography,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 5–18.
• “Why Biographies? Actors, Agencies, and the Analysis of Immigrant Entrepreneurship,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 37–52.
• Benbow, Mark. “German Immigrants in the United States Brewing Industry.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2017. Link.
• Berghoff, Hartmut, and Uwe Spiekermann. “Immigrant Entrepreneurship. The German-American Business Biography, 1720 to the Present.” Bulletin of the GHI Washington 47 (Fall 2010): 69–82.
• Berghoff, Hartmut, and Uwe Spiekermann. “Project Introduction.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2012. Link.
• Berghoff, Hartmut. “The Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project: Rationale, Design, and Outcome,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 53–68.
• Boyd, James. “Merchants of Migration: Keeping the German Atlantic Connected in America’s Early National Period.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2015. Link.
• Daum, Andreas W. “New Approaches to Migration Research: German-Americans in Comparative Perspective.” Bulletin of the GHI Washington 21 (Fall 1997): 7–11. Link.
• Diner, Hasia. “German Jews and Peddling in America.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2014. Link.
• Finger, Jürgen. “Entrepreneur Biographies as Microhistories of X,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 19–36.
• Gordon, Scott Paul. “Johann Andreas Albrecht: Making Rifles in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Economies,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 113–40.
• Hausman, William J. “Introduction, Volume 2: The Emergence of an Industrial Nation.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2016. Link.
• Heilbrunn, Bernice. “Jacob H. Schiff: Banker and Philanthropist,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 213–40.
• Hester, Heather. “Making Entertainment American: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 241–62.
• Hoerder, Dirk, and Jörg Nagler, eds. People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820–1930. Publications of the German Historical Institute, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Holian, Timothy J. “‘A Most Remarkable Man’: Adolphus Busch and the Evolution of the American Brewing Industry,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 187–212.
• Kamphoefner, Walter. “The German Component to American Industrialization.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2014. Link.
• Keeling, Drew. “The Business of Migration since 1815.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2016. Link.
• Kobrak, Christopher. “A Reputation for Cross-Cultural Business: Henry Villard and German Investment in the United States,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 167–86.
• Kobrin, Rebecca. “A Credit to Their Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant ‘Bankers,’ Credit Access, and the Transnational Business of Mass Migration, 1873-1914,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 69–92.
• Leamann, Hans. “Johann Christoph Sauer: Pioneer of the German-American Press,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 93–112.
• Manz, Stefan. “America in Global Context: German Entrepreneurs around the World.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2014. Link.
• Mehnert, Ute. “‘My Golden Gut’ and Other Stories: How Lillian Vernon Built Her Brand,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 309–32.
• Münzel, Martin. “Expulsion – Plunder – Flight: Businessmen and Emigration from Nazi Germany.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2013. Link.
• Nagler, Jörg. “Continental European Migration and Transcontinental Migration to North America.” Bulletin of the GHI Washington 9 (Fall 1991): 27–30. Link.
• O’Dea, Meghan. “Political Ideology and Economic Activity: Peter Thiel’s Libertarian Entrepreneurship,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 333–50.
• Pertilla, Atiba, and Uwe Spiekermann. “Living the American Dream? The Challenge of Writing Biographies of German-American Immigrant Entrepreneurs.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2015. Link.
• Pertilla, Atiba. “Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Transnational Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth Century to Today.” Bulletin of the GHI Washington 59 (Fall 2016): 157–62.
• Richards-Wilson, Stephani. “German Social Entrepreneurs and the First Kindergartens in Nineteenth Century America.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2016. Link.
• Richards-Wilson, Stephani. “Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): Social Entrepreneur and Suffragette,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 141–66.
• Rodgers, Mary T. “German Immigrants and J. P. Morgan’s Securities Underwriting Syndicates.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2015. Link.
• Schäfer, Axel R. “Progressive Reform in a Transatlantic Age: Economics, Culture, and Politics in the United States.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2014. Link.
• Schanetzky, Tim. “Builder of the Liberal Consensus: Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967),” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016):  285–308.
• Schwantes, Benjamin. “Trade, Family, and Religion: Forging Networks in the German Atlantic World.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2015. Link.
• Spiekermann, Uwe. “An Ordinary Man among Titans: The Life of Walter P. Spreckels,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, Bulletin of the GHI Washington Supplement 12 (2016): 263–84.
• Welskopp, Thomas. “Prohibition.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2011. Link.
• Wokeck, Marianne S. “Introduction, Volume 1: From the Colonial Economy to Early Industrialization.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2017. Link.
• Wright, Robert E. “German Corporate Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century America.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2014. Link.
• Wüstenbecker, Katja. “German-Americans during World War I.” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, 2014. Link.