Agnès Delahaye is Professor of American History at Lyon 2 University
Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber is Associate Professor of American History at Poitiers University
L. H. Roper is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke is Professor of American History at Paris 8 University (Vincennes Saint-Denis)

Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities enabled early modern European overseas empires.