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oapen-20.500.12657-276212023-03-21T15:47:24Z Biografien und Netzwerke im Kaffeehandel zwischen Deutschland und Zentralamerika 1920-1959 Berth, Christiane Hering, Rainer German Hamburg Latin America Central America global coffee trade anti-semitism National Socialism migration networks Worldwar I 19th century 20th century bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History Coffee is not only a popular drink, but also linked different worlds: The coffee trade linked Hamburg and Bremen to transnational networks between Europe and Latin America.Central America was important for global coffee trade because the region was the first to introduce the "wet" form of treatment. The high quality of these "washed" coffees made them sought-after on the world market. German immigrants shaped the trade links between the Central American coffee-growing regions and the North German port cities: They founded export companies, purchased coffee plantations and participated in the prefinancing of the harvests.Christiane Berth analyses biographies and networks of German coffee actors in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Chiapas. It shows how their trade networks became fragile as a result of economic crises and new foreign policy constellation, how it came under pressure in National Socialism and broke up during the Second World War. Nevertheless, trade relations between nation states, networks in the coffee industry and the biographies of coffee players remained closely interlinked, even in the post-war period. 2018-11-15 03:00:31 2020-04-01T11:58:16Z 2020-04-01T11:58:16Z 2014 book 1002384 OCN: 1083019349 9783943423105 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27621 ger Hamburger Historische Forschungen application/pdf 1002384.pdf hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/purl/HamburgUP_HHF6_Berth Hamburg University Press 10.15460/HUP.HHF.6.142 10.15460/HUP.HHF.6.142 35685259-3553-4bae-af55-685815864a93 9783943423105 6 561 Hamburg open access
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Coffee is not only a popular drink, but also linked different worlds: The coffee trade linked Hamburg and Bremen to transnational networks between Europe and Latin America.Central America was important for global coffee trade because the region was the first to introduce the "wet" form of treatment. The high quality of these "washed" coffees made them sought-after on the world market. German immigrants shaped the trade links between the Central American coffee-growing regions and the North German port cities: They founded export companies, purchased coffee plantations and participated in the prefinancing of the harvests.Christiane Berth analyses biographies and networks of German coffee actors in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Chiapas. It shows how their trade networks became fragile as a result of economic crises and new foreign policy constellation, how it came under pressure in National Socialism and broke up during the Second World War. Nevertheless, trade relations between nation states, networks in the coffee industry and the biographies of coffee players remained closely interlinked, even in the post-war period.
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