Cosmopolitan Networks in Commerce and Society 1660–1914

German Entrepreneurs and the Industrialization of Milan
Oberkampf,
Jouy
Dollfus, Mieg & Cie.,
Mulhouse
1795–1804 53,532 1806 1,327 40.3
1804–5 34,000 1806 715 47.5
European Printers
Mean values
33,878 530 74.6
a Output is expressed in continental pieces (24 m or 26.3 yards)
Source: Data on Peel, Oberkampf, Du Pasquier, De Wisser, Wetter e Waldner from Chapman and Chassagne,
European Textile Printers, ii. 213. Data on Kramer e Compagni taken from letter from Kramer e Compagni to
the municipality, 21 July 1796, ABT, Fondo Famiglie, Cartella 815 and Promemoir of the Firm Kramer e
Compagni, 8 Apr. 1791, ASM, Commercio parte antica, cartella 252. Data on Schüle in Augsburg taken from
Friedrich Nicolai, Beschreibung einer Reise durch Deutschland und die Schweiz im Yeshre 1781: Nebst Be mer -
kungen über Gelehrsamkeit, Industrie, Religion und Sitten, 12 vols. (Berlin, 1783–96), ad vocem (Schwaben), vii.
60–1. Data on Ermeler e Hanckel taken from Johann Georg Krünitz, Ökonomisch-technologische Enziklopädie,
242 vols. (Berlin, 1786), xxxvi. 149, ad vocem ‘Kattun’, table ‘Zitz und Kattun Druckereien in Berlin vom
Yeshre 1785’. Data on Dollfus, Mieg & Cie taken from Chapman and Chassagne, European Textile Printers,
237 and Nicolas Schreck, ‘Dollfus-Mieg et Cie: Histoire d’une grande industrie cotonniere des origines a la
premiere guerre mondiale’, AAVV, DMC patrimoine mondiale? (Mulhouse, 2006), 32.
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