• Regions: Atlantic World; Britain; Eastern Mediterranean; Egypt; England; Eurasia; Europe; Mediterranean; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Times: 17th to 18th centuries
• Themes: Economic History; History of Empire; Political History

Ellen Nye is an historian of early modern trade, money, and empire. Her current book project, Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670-1720, examines the relationship between interstate private credit and domestic public finance in early modern England and the Ottoman Empire.