Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 16201760

Auteur
Siobhan Talbott was awarded her doctorate by the University of St Andrews in 2010. Following postdoctoral research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) and the University of Manchester, she was appointed to a Lectureship at Keele University in 2014. She was promoted to Professor in 2024. She has held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2018-22) and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2022-23). Her work has won a number of national and international prizes, including the Senior Hume Brown Prize (2016). She is the co-editor of the Royal Historical Society's Camden series.

Résumé
This book explores how merchants and other commercial agents learned about business in the early modern British Atlantic World, considering how they gathered knowledge and then dispersed, stored, and used this information.