connected network as she argues that the voyage was a transnational expedition. Dalton shows that the concept and planning stages of the voyage were heavily influenced, if not directed, by English merchants and that the main financial backers of the voyage were English and Genoese. So, while Cabot may have been sailing under the Spanish flag, his loyalties were with the venture itself and likely those who had originally backed the voyage, not necessarily with the Spanish Crown. Dalton further demonstrates the English role in this voyage by discussing the participation of Englishmen, such as Barlow, in the expedition itself. After Cabot’s failure to meet the stated goals of the expedition, or to return with significant treasure, Dalton discusses how and why the Barlow circle dispersed in the 1530s, not for political/religious reasons as often claimed, but for personal and financial reasons. Dalton reveals the dilemma for those who invested in voyages in “a time when trade, discovery, and conquest went hand in hand” (p. 112). Dalton follows Barlow, Cabot, and Robert Thorne to England where their networks continued to be connected to Atlantic trade and exploration. Dalton demonstrates that Barlow’s network continued to operate within the merchant world, despite the fact that they began to move in different, powerful political circles in England, and stayed actively involved in discussions of exploration, having ties to both the Wyndham voyage to Morocco and the creation of the Muscovy Company. Dalton does a masterful job demonstrating the entangled nature of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth century, placing English merchants at the center of Spain’s efforts to establish viable trade networks with the New World. Relying heavily on the Spanish archives, especially the underutilized Archivo de Protocolos de Sevilla, Dalton firmly establishes the interconnectedness of her merchant networks with the networks of exploration and conquest in Seville. This is an area of English Atlantic activity that has been understudied for too long. The one area of this work that seemed a bit lacking is Dalton’s account of Cabot’s voyage up the Rio de la Plata. This account, which could have been full of the colorful stories of wildlife and Amerindians taken from Barlow’s account, A Breif Somme of Geographia, left the reader wanting a bit more analysis of Barlow’s depictions and the implications they might have had for his potential audience, especially as Barlow is the first Englishman to record an account of the Americas. However, this is only a minor issue in light of the rest of the book. This book is sure to inspire additional discussion and study of the entangled nature of the early Atlantic world that defies the borders of empires and nation-states.

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最辉煌的公司：全球视野中的科罗纳多探险队

连接网络，因为她认为这次航行是一次跨国探险。道尔顿表明，航程的概念和计划阶段受到英国商人的严重影响，如果不是指导的话，航程的主要资金支持者是英国人和热那亚人。因此，虽然卡博特可能一直在西班牙国旗下航行，但他的忠诚是对企业本身以及最初支持航行的人，不一定是西班牙王室。道尔顿通过讨论英国人（如巴洛）在远征中的参与，进一步证明了英国人在这次航行中的作用。在卡博特未能实现远征的既定目标，或未能携带大量财宝返回后，道尔顿讨论了巴洛圈在 1530 年代如何以及为何分散，不是出于经常声称的政治/宗教原因，而是出于个人和经济原因。道尔顿揭示了那些在“贸易、发现和征服齐头并进的时代”（第 112 页）投资航海的人的困境。道尔顿跟随巴洛、卡博特和罗伯特索恩来到英格兰，在那里他们的网络继续与大西洋贸易和勘探联系在一起。道尔顿证明了巴洛的网络继续在商业世界中运作，尽管他们开始在英格兰不同的、强大的政治圈子里活动，并积极参与探索的讨论，与温德姆前往摩洛哥的航行和莫斯科公司的创立。道尔顿出色地展示了 16 世纪大西洋世界纠缠不清的本质，将英国商人置于西班牙努力与新世界建立可行贸易网络的中心。道尔顿严重依赖西班牙档案，特别是未充分利用的塞维利亚协议档案，牢固地建立了她的商业网络与塞维利亚探索和征服网络的相互联系。这是英国大西洋活动的一个领域，长期以来一直未被充分研究。这项工作中似乎有点缺乏的一个领域是道尔顿对卡博特在拉普拉塔河上航行的描述。这个帐户可能充满了从巴洛的帐户中提取的野生动物和美洲印第安人的丰富多彩的故事，A Breif Somme of Geographia，让读者想要更多地分析巴洛的描述以及它们可能对他的潜在观众产生的影响，尤其是因为巴洛是第一个记录美洲历史的英国人。然而，这与本书的其余部分相比只是一个小问题。这本书肯定会激发对早期大西洋世界无视帝国和民族国家边界的纠缠性质的更多讨论和研究。