Creating the Atlantic World: transnational relationships and family ties in trading networks and voyages of discovery, 1480–1580.

该项目将调查跨国家庭贸易网络在奠定大西洋世界基础方面所起的作用。它将重点关注1480年至1580年期间与南大西洋意大利和伊比利亚半岛商人合作的不列颠群岛商人。这个项目将研究这些商人的贸易范围，以及他们的关系在多大程度上超越了国家关系和与性别、阶级和宗教有关的传统界限，它将把家庭和混合网络置于全球历史这一被忽视领域的核心。它将展示他们对欧洲和大西洋两岸的影响，以及对英国贸易，“发现”，定居，殖民和种族的新兴思想的影响。

This project will investigate the part played by transnational family-based trade networks in laying the foundations of the Atlantic World. It will focus on merchants from the British Isles who cooperated with merchants from the Italian and Iberian Peninsulas in the South Atlantic from 1480 to 1580. This project will examine these merchants’ trading reach and the extent to which their relationships transcended national ties and traditional boundaries relating to gender, class and religion, and it will place families and hybrid networks at the heart of this neglected area of global history. It will demonstrate their influence on locations in Europe and across the Atlantic, and on emerging ideas of trade, 'discovery', settlement, colonisation and race in Britain.