This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men

In October of 1756 Sarah Folkes wrote home to her children in London from Jamaica. Posted on the ship Europa, bound for London, her letter was one of around 350

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe. Usin

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through different mediums an