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Patrick van der Geest is a PhD Student at Lund University’s Department of History. In his project, he examines the hitherto unexplored transformation of Hope & Co., a prominent Scots-Dutch merchant and banking house based in Amsterdam, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from archetypal colonial to imperial modes of exploitation. Patrick’s thesis expands on his master’s dissertation, which examined the interaction between Hope & Co.’s business strategy between 1756 and 1780 and the credit crisis of 1772–73. Since graduating, he has worked as a data assistant on a project concerning the slavery connections of Hope & Co. and R. Mees & Zoonen at the International Institute of Social History. Patrick has worked as book reviews editor of the International Journal of Maritime History and was a project assistant of Linnaeus University's Global Archives Online-project.