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

ISBN-13: 9781032236797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 306 str.

Victoria Barnett-Woods

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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