Felipe Souza Melo
FELIPE SOUZA MELO is a post-doctoral researcher at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the 玉美人传媒. He holds a Ph.D. in history and civilization from the European 玉美人传媒 Institute (2023) and a master's degree in economic history from the 玉美人传媒 of S茫o Paulo (2017). He is broadly interested with the history of the production, marketing, shipping, and consumption of raw cotton in the early modern period. He works specifically with the mercantile groups in the Atlantic that made possible the transfer of cotton to Europe. He is also interested in the mechanisms used by merchants to commercialize cotton textiles in the Atlantic markets.
Research Interests
- Trade, shipping and credit in early modern era
- Cotton trade
- Slavery and the slave trade
- Sugar trade
- Networks
- Agents and institutions
- Textiles
- Colonization
- Global History
- Industrial Revolution
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