Building on Credit: Architecture and the Mississippi Bubble (1716–1720)

Jason Nguyen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from Harvard University. His current book project, “Materials, Machines, and the Making of Architecture in the Age of Absolutism,” examines how architecture became a means to understand the natural world in seventeenth-century France.