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Unraveling Transnational Merchant Networks, ca. 1685–1825: Roots of an American Commercial Presence in Brazil book cover

1st Edition

Unraveling Transnational Merchant Networks, ca. 1685–1825 Roots of an American Commercial Presence in Brazil

By Laura Jarnagin Copyright 2027
308 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines merchant networks from the unique perspective of moving backwards 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... Read more

Introduction

Prologue: Paul Berthon of Châtellerault

1. Misadventures in England and Abroad

2. Network Pathways to Lisbon

3. The Second Berthon Generation: Berthon & Garnault

4. The Networks of the 1750s Brazilian Diamond Contracts

5. The Third Berthon Generation: Recalibrating

6. Into the Fourth Berthon Generation: Prelude to a Commission House

7. American Merchants at Pernambuco and Their Transatlantic Networks

Conclusion

Appendix: Known Huguenot Merchants at Lisbon, 1713–1718

Biography

Laura Jarnagin (Pang) is an Associate Professor Emerita from Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests, centered in nineteenth-century Brazilian socioeconomic history, now extend to Brazil’s role in merchant networking throughout the world, as initially explored in A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil (2008).

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