Cultural Economies explores the intersection of material culture and transatlantic formations of "capital" in the long-eighteenth century. The book is designed for an interdisciplinary scholarly audience interested in cutting-edge research of the eighteenth-century Atlantic.

Victoria Barnett-Woods is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola University Maryland.

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 Image 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