Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word Series ; v.121
• Author: Jones, Sophie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Talbott, Siobhan.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the Written Word Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)

"Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, 'business news', within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scholars from a range of disciplines, which span the breadth of the early modern Atlantic from the first appearance of serial corantos in the seventeenth century to the United States' Declaration of Independence in the late eighteenth century. These expert contributions showcase the range of innovative methodological and theoretical approaches which can be used to study business news, including social network analysis, textual analysis, and qualitative methods"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Business news in the early modern Atlantic world : contexts, connections, and methodologies / Sophie H. Jones and Siobhan Talbott -- The provision and circulation of credit in the British Atlantic trading world, 1739-1775 / Kenneth Morgan -- Spreading information in eighteenth-century mercantile networks : experiments in historical social network analysis / Peter Buckles -- Trust and credit : merchants' roles in Puritan news networks / Sarah Hall -- Betting on news : (mis)information and public opinion in early modern England / Lena Liapi -- Newspapers, profit, and business in colonial America / Jeremy Land -- 'I should be glad of a little conversation with thee' : business letters and the oral exchange of information in the early modern Atlantic world / Siobhan Talbott and Sophie H. Jones -- Postmen of the Atlantic world : captains transmitting epistolary business news / Hannah Knox Tucker -- Edward Northey and news of Catholic estate forfeitures in the Leeward Islands, 1700-1723 / Eilish Gregory -- The East India Company in West Africa and information networks in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world / Edmond Smith -- The Atlantic correspondence of the Royal African Company, 1678-1681 / David Brown.