Anna Brinkman-Schwartz’s latest article ‘The heart of the maritime world: London’s ‘mercantile’ coffee houses in the Seven Years’ War and the American War of Independence, 1756–83’ (open access) is published in the latest issue of Historical Research. Here...
Latin American HistoryRothschild, Quicksilver and Mining: A Global Monopoly from a Bolivian PerspectiveTristan Platt (St Andrews)29 November 2011 The trade in quicksilver (more commonly called Mercury) was a potentially lucrative business at the turn of the...
