Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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早期现代大西洋世界的商业新闻
DOI：
10.1163/9789004689879_008
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2024
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Talbott S
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Talbott S
在近代早期，有关商业的口头对话很常见。 1 它们发生在一系列地方，既有专门面向商业的地方，如皇家交易所、码头和咖啡馆，也有更非正式的空间，包括私人住宅或街道。 2 其中许多口头交流并未记录在案，随后就被研究早期现代商业的历史学家所遗忘。然而，通过参考商人信件和信件中包含的口头对话，我们可以开始拼凑出口头对话促进商业交易、报告商业活动和传播商业信息的方式。此外，通过考虑通信的构建方式、书面语言的使用以及口头传播信息的方式，我们对商业“对话”的理解得到了显着增强。我们认为，信件不仅仅是书面文字，口头对话不仅仅是口头讨论，所有形式的信息交换都是在特定商业文化中运作的更广泛的沟通回路的一部分。 3 许多研究近代早期口头信息交流或发生这种情况的地方的文献都这样做了
Oral conversations about business were commonplace in the early modern period. 1 They occurred in a range of places, both those specifically oriented towards business, such as the Royal Exchange, the quayside, and in coffee houses, and in more informal spaces, including private homes or on the street. 2 Many of these oral exchanges were not committed to paper, and subsequently they have been lost to historians of early modern business. Through references to oral conversations which are contained within merchants’ correspondence and letter-books, however, we can begin to piece together the ways in which oral conversation facilitated commercial transactions, reported business activities, and spread commercial information. Further, through considering the ways in which correspondence was constructed, written language used, and information orally disseminated, our understanding of what business ‘conversations’ were is significantly enhanced. We suggest that letters were not just written words, and that verbal conversation was not just oral discussion, but that all forms of information exchange were part of broader communications circuits that operated within a specific business culture. 3 Much of the literature that has examined the oral exchange of information in the early modern period, or the places in which this occurred, has done so