Cosmopolitan Networks in Commerce and Society 1660–1914

NOTES ON EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
MARK CASSON is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre
for Institutional Performance at the University of Reading. His recent
books include The World’s First Railway System (2009); with Peter
Buckley, The Multinational Enterprise Revisited (2009); and Entre pre -
neur ship: Theory, Networks, History (2010).
GARETH COLE completed his Ph.D. in Maritime History at the Uni -
versity of Exeter in July 2008. Since then he has been employed in
Exeter University Library. He is currently in communication with a
publisher to turn his thesis into a book manuscript. His current
research is a further examination of relations between the Ordnance
and the Navy (building on the research for his doctorate) and of how
the Ordnance bases overseas were run and operated.
HELEN DOE is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the
University of Exeter, where she gained her Ph.D. Her research interests
are in the fields of maritime business history and Cornish maritime
history. She has published articles in journals including the
Economic History Review, International Journal of Maritime History, and
Journal of Transport History. Her recent books are Enterprising Women
in Shipping in the Nineteenth Century (2009); and From Coastal Sail to
Global Shipping (2009). Along with Philip Payton and Alston Ken -
nerly, she is currently editing The Maritime History of Cornwall, to be
published by the University of Exeter Press.
CAROLYN DOWNS is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for
Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University. She
has been working on the papers of Daniel Eccleston and late eight -
eenth-century trade and radicalism since 2000, and maintains this
work despite her Ph.D. and current employment at the University of
Salford leading her into other areas. Currently she is principal investigator
on an EU Erasmus project investigating entrepreneurship. She
also works extensively on the papers and photographs held in the
Mass Observation Archives of the University of Sussex. Recent pub-
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