Actors of Globalization offers an account of how global events in the late eighteenth century contributed to U.S. economic and social change by detailing the global entrepreneurship of New York merchants and the repercussions of their business at home.

Lisa Sturm-Lind received her Ph.D. in 2014 from the European-University Viadrina Frankfurt /Oder, Germany. Her research interests are global economic and social history and globalization in the early modern period.