Building Confidence, Securing the State: Marketing Transatlantic Knowledge

Session Moderator: Cathy Matson

Jessica Lepler, University of New Hampshire, "'The American and Foreign Agency': Profit and a Prophet of American Commercial Expansionism" (PDF)

Caitlin Rosenthal, Harvard Business School, "A Common Language of Accounts: Networks of Management Expertise" (PDF)

Gautham Rao, American University, "The Neckerian Revolution: Public Opinion, Public Credit, and Central Statecraft in Post-Revolutionary America" (PDF)

Tobacco, Cotton, Black Powder: Europeans in Early North American Trade and Manufactures

Session Moderator: Melanie Aspey

Kathryn Boodry, Harvard University, "Lessons learned from Cotton: Rothschild Trade and Finance in the United States 1837-1861" (PDF)

Andrew Fagal, SUNY-Binghamton, "Foreign Capital, American Armament, and the Rise of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co."

Claire-Amandine Soulié, The Rothschild Archive, London,"'A fine sort of bright long and fine leaf': Rothschild Houses and American Tobacco, 1830-1860" (PDF)

Foreign Investment in Far-Flung Places

Session Moderator: Cathy Matson

Hannah Farber, UC–Berkeley, "A Debt to North Africa: The Dey of Algiers as an Investor in the United States, 1795-1796" (PDF)

Francois Furstenberg, University of Montreal, "Reflections on French and Dutch Investment in the American Backcountry: The 1790s" (PDF)

Maps (PDF)

Richard J Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio, "A Mexican Family Dynasty in Louisiana: The Lizardi, 1829-1858" (PDF) See below for additional documents.

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Digging in the Archives: Thinking about Sources for Studying the North American Economy

Session Moderator: Melanie Aspey

Inés Roldán de Montaud, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, (CSIC), "Spain Sources for Early American Economy and Society in the Spanish Archives" (PDF)

Pierre Gervais, University of Paris-8/ UMR 8533 IDHE, "From Public Records to Private Archives: Researching the North American Economy in France" (PDF)