Table of Contents

Introduction: Immigrant Entrepreneurship as a Challenge for Historiography
Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann

The Analysis of Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur Biographies as Microhistories of X
Jürgen Finger

Why Biographies? Actors, Agencies, and the Analysis of Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Uwe Spiekermann

The Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project: Rationale, Design, and Outcome
Hartmut Berghoff

A Credit to Their Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant “Bankers,” Credit Access, and the Transnational Business of Mass Migration, 1873–1914
Rebecca Kobrin

*Entrepreneurship in the Mirror of Biographical Analysis

From the Colonial Economy to Early Industrialization

Johann Christoph Sauer: Pioneer of the German-American Press
Hans Leamann

Johann Andreas Albrecht: Making Rifles in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Economies
Scott Paul Gordon

The Emergence of an Industrial Nation

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817–1884): Social Entrepreneur and Suffragette
Stephani Richards-Wilson

A Reputation for Cross-Cultural Business: Henry Villard and German Investment in the United States
Christopher Kobrak

From the End of the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era

“A Most Remarkable Man”: Adolphus Busch and the Evolution of the American Brewing Industry
Timothy J. Holian

Jacob H. Schiff, Banker and Philanthropist
Bernice Heilbrunn

The Age of the World Wars

Making Entertainment American: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Heather Hester

An Ordinary Man among Titans: The Life of Walter P. Spreckels
Uwe Spiekermann

Builder of the Liberal Consensus: Henry J. Kaiser (1882–1967)
Tim Schanetzky

From the Postwar Boom to Global Capitalism

“My Golden Gut” and Other Stories: How Lillian Vernon Built Her Brand
Ute Mehnert

Political Ideology and Economic Activity: Peter Thiel’s Libertarian Entrepreneurship
Meghan O’Dea