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Fixing Early Modern Identity in the Mobile Mediterranean
This article examines a seventeenth-century Venetian trial of brokers working for Ottoman and Persian merchants. Their linguistic and religious mobility made them valuable for commerce yet legally vulnerable. Venetian institutions alternately prized and punished such mobility, forcing brokers to develop strategies to navigate between professional asset and liability.

“When all the liquid World was one extended Thames”: Early Modern British Prospects in West African Estuaries*
This essay explores how the Royal African Company sought to exploit West African estuaries for imperial gain through prospecting and settling strategies. Environmental barriers and African-European competition hindered control, producing hybrid waterscapes and fostering coastal trade that reinforced the Atlantic slave trade. The shift toward Cape Coast Castle highlights adaptive yet contested British imperial expansion.

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Father Pepe’s House of Cards: Jesuits, Cheap Print, and Material Devotion in Eighteenth-Century Catholicism
In 18th-century Naples, Jesuit Francesco Pepe used cheap printed materials to spread religious devotion among the poor. He created mass-produced devotional objects and booklets telling miraculous stories. This mix of books and objects helped people, especially women and the uneducated, keep faith alive in a crowded city. Pepe’s work shaped new ways of practicing religion.

Integral Outside: The Financial Curb Market, the Electric Telegraph, and the Politics of Pricing in Second Empire France
In 1800s France, most financial trading happened outside the official stock exchange on a hidden but active "curb market." Using new telegraph lines, unofficial traders spread fast price info and challenged state power. This article shows how modern tech and finance clashed with politics—leading to a crackdown in Paris and Marseille.

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The Journal of Modern History ist ein Fachjournal, das sich auf europäische intellektuelle, politische und kulturelle Geschichte vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart spezialisiert. Es gilt als führendes internationales Journal für moderne europäische Geschichte; veröffentlicht Forschungsartikel, Buchrezensionen und gelegentlich Sonderhefte; herausgegeben von renommierten Historikern der University of Chicago

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Fixing Early Modern Identity in the Mobile Mediterranean

This article examines a seventeenth-century Venetian trial of brokers working for Ottoman and Persian merchants. Their linguistic and religious mobility made them valuable for commerce yet legally vulnerable. Venetian institutions alternately prized and punished such mobility, forcing brokers to develop strategies to navigate between professional asset and liability.
“When all the liquid World was one extended Thames”: Early Modern British Prospects in West African Estuaries*

This essay explores how the Royal African Company sought to exploit West African estuaries for imperial gain through prospecting and settling strategies. Environmental barriers and African-European competition hindered control, producing hybrid waterscapes and fostering coastal trade that reinforced the Atlantic slave trade. The shift toward Cape Coast Castle highlights adaptive yet contested British imperial expansion.