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Book Review: The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities by Charles C. Ludington LudingtonCharles C., ed., The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. x + 262 pp., illustrations, maps, index. ISBN 978-1-0322-2807-5, £130 (hbk). (2025)
Journal Article
Talbott, S. (2025). Book Review: The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities by Charles C. Ludington LudingtonCharles C., ed., The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. x + 262 pp., illustrations, maps, index. ISBN 978-1-0322-2807-5, £130 (hbk). International Journal of Maritime History, https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714251331869

A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business? (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business?. In Knowledge, Information and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620 - 1760 (24-49). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0002

The ‘print revolution’ underpinned the emergence and growth of a variety of conduits of business information, including printed prices current, commercial newspapers, exchange rates current, and advice books, as there was an expansion in the producti... Read More about A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business?.

Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (50-78). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0003

Verbal exchange of information was commonplace, but many of these oral exchanges were immediately lost from record as they were not committed to paper. Drawing on merchants’ correspondence and letter-books, this chapter pieces together the role of or... Read More about Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information.

Commercial Education (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Commercial Education. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (79-120). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0004

Commerce in the early modern period was a highly skilled profession. We know much about the increase in formal commercial education, the role of apprenticeships, and the publication of printed didactic texts such as advice books, but we know less abo... Read More about Commercial Education.

Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (121-156). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0005

Commercial agents operated in peculiarly complex legal landscapes in the early modern British Atlantic world. As commercial worlds expanded, this complexity increased. This chapter explores how merchants educated themselves about legal processes and... Read More about Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes.

Misinformation (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Misinformation. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (203-234). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0007

While honesty was a desirable quality in business, sometimes information was shared which was—or later became—false. Occasionally this resulted from a deliberate intent to deceive, but false information more commonly arose from genuine misunderstandi... Read More about Misinformation.