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This dissertation examines the history of merchant capitalism in the Southwest from the end of the Civil War to the beginnings of the Great Depression. Rather than studying one mercantile family only, it examines the variety of traders who lived in New Mexico and Arizona. The di…

The dissertation focuses on a small community of Armenian silk merchants from New Julfa, Isfahan who had established a global network of commercial settlements, spanning from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. It examines many issues, including the impact of long dista…

This dissertation studies premodern temple architecture, freestanding sculpted stones, and Tamil language inscriptions patronized by south Indian merchants in south India and China. Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, Indian Ocean trade was at its apex, connecting popula…

This thesis examines the performance of Brazilian culture enacted as part of Henry II, King of France, royal entry into Rouen, Normandy in 1550. 150 Norman merchants and 50 Tupinamba Brazilians forcibly brought over from their native land "performed" Brazilian culture on a recre…

This dissertation analyzes the ruling elites, mercantile classes, and trade networks of the communities in the al-Qasim sub-region of the Najd (Central Arabia) from roughly the end of the 1700s until 1932. As an attempt to complicate sweeping narratives of national history, it e…