Unraveling Transnational Merchant Networks, ca. 1685-1825

This book examines merchant networks from the unique perspective of moving backward in time from a specific outcome-the founding of an American commission house in Brazil in the early 1800s-to uncover a century-and-a-half's worth of the transnational networking that led to its existence.Individuals, their networks, and the times in which they lived constitute this study's methodological framework....