The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Regime

Author/Contributor(s):	Hillmann, Henning
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	02/23/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe. He combines rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century.