CONTRIBUTOR:

Albane Forestier

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CNRS Post-doctoral Fellow

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Centre Roland Mousnier

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Dr. Albane Forestier is a CNRS post-doctoral fellow at the Centre Roland Mousnier (UMR 8596) in Paris. Her research interests centre on the French and British Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth-century. Her current research project has two main goals: first, to examine the role of European financial markets in the French Atlantic economy, and second, to look at the practice of the law in colonial commercial disputes. She completed her PhD in Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009, before moving to Montreal, where she held a Mellon Fellowship in the French Atlantic History Group at McGill University. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the organization of colonial trade with the West Indies in the eighteenth century, with particular attention paid to French and British merchant networks and commercial practices, and on the institutions regulating European trade expansion. Her recent publications include the following articles: “A ‘considerable credit’ in the late eighteenth-century French West Indian trade: the Chaurands of Nantes.” French History (2011), 25 (1), and “Risk, kinship and personal relationships in late eighteenth-century West Indian trade: the commercial network of Tobin & Pinney.” Business History (2010), 52 (6).