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This thesis explores the commercial links between Scotland and France in the long seventeenth century, with a focus on the Scottish mercantile presence in France’s Atlantic ports, particularly during periods of domestic and international upheaval. This study questions long-held …

This study is concerned with the how Bahrain's merchants shaped the island's political history in the pre-oil era. It argues that the interdependent relationship between the merchants and the ruling family was interrupted by a severe structural crisis in the 1920s, which invited…