Cultural Economies of the Atlantic World: Objects and Capital in the Transatlantic Imagination

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Dedication
Contents
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Introduction
Part I Capitalized Bodies and the Imperial Imagination
	1 “Venereal Distemper”: Illicit Trade and Contagious Disease in the Journals of Captain James Cook
	2 Creolizing the Gothic Narrative: The Politics of Witchcraft, Gender, and “Black” Magic in Charlotte Smith’s The Story of Henrietta
	3 Black Medical Practitioners and Knowledge as Cultural Capital in the Greater Caribbean
Part II Representation and Power in the Contact Zone
	4 Materializing the Immaterial: Creating Capital in a Mirrored Mirage
	5 Reading African Material Culture in the Contact Zone: Willem Bosman’s New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea
	6 Fetishes and the Fetishized: Material Culture and Obeah in the British Caribbean
Part III Consuming Cultures in the Colonial Atlantic
	7 Maple: The Sugar of Abolitionist Aspirations
	8 Chocolate and the Atlantic Economy: Circuits of Trade and Knowledge
Part IV Labor and Identity in Early American Probates
	9 “The Only Property I Could Dispose of to Any Advantage”: Textiles as Mediators in Early Irish Louisiana
	10 Institutionalizing the Slave Power at the Local Level: Deferential Care of Slaveholding Estates in Eighteenth-Century York County, Virginia
Part V Capital Networks, Capital Control
	11 Conveyance and Commodity: The Ordinary Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800
	12 “Unless Speedily Relieved from Old or New England, the Commoner Sort of People and the Slaves Must Starve”: The Changing Nature and Networks of the Barbadian Import and Trade, 1680–1700
Contributors
Index