Laura Jarnagin (Pang) is Associate Professor Emerita from Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests, centered in nineteenth-century Brazilian socioeconomic history, now extend to Brazil’s role in merchant networking throughout the world, as initially explored in A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil (2008).

• Introduction. Prologue: Paul Berthon of Châtellerault 1. Misadventures in England and Abroad 2. Network Pathways to Lisbon 3. The Second Berthon Generation: Berthon & Garnault 4. The Networks of the 1750s Brazilian Diamond Contracts 5. The Third Berthon Generation: Recalibrating 6. Into the Fourth Berthon Generation: Prelude to a Commission House 7. American Merchants at Pernambuco and Their Transatlantic Networks. Conclusion. Appendix: Known Huguenot Merchants at Lisbon, 1713–1718

Laura Jarnagin (Pang) is Associate Professor Emerita from Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests, centered in nineteenth-century Brazilian socioeconomic history, now extend to Brazil’s role in merchant networking throughout the world, as initially explored in A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil (2008).

• Introduction. Prologue: Paul Berthon of Châtellerault 1. Misadventures in England and Abroad 2. Network Pathways to Lisbon 3. The Second Berthon Generation: Berthon & Garnault 4. The Networks of the 1750s Brazilian Diamond Contracts 5. The Third Berthon Generation: Recalibrating 6. Into the Fourth Berthon Generation: Prelude to a Commission House 7. American Merchants at Pernambuco and Their Transatlantic Networks. Conclusion. Appendix: Known Huguenot Merchants at Lisbon, 1713–1718