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Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, S. H., & Talbott, S. (2022). Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks. Enterprise and Society, 23(4), 1092-1121. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.15

Despite significant developments in understanding the role of women in early-modern business, more is needed to fully understand women’s impact on eighteenth-century trading networks. Further, much less is known about the role of wider family members... Read More about Sole Traders?: The role of the extended family in eighteenth-century Atlantic business networks.

‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history (2021)
Journal Article
Talbott. (2021). ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history. Literature and History, 30(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/03061973211007353

This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries – that represents aspects of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict fought in Europe from 1618-1648. Depiction... Read More about ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history.

‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674 (2021)
Journal Article
Talbott, S., & Jones, S. H. (2021). ‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674. Enterprise and Society, 23(4), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.1

By nature, wars appear hostile to commerce, bringing disruption to international relations and to everyday life. By focusing on the individuals involved in continuing commerce, however, an increasing body of scholarship has shown that merchants in a... Read More about ‘What cannot be helped must be indured’: Coping with obstacles to business during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674.