Introduction: Promises and predicaments of the long eighteenth-century transatlantic world / Seohyon Jung -- Pirates, slaves, and profligate rogues : sailors of color in the eighteenth-century maritime world / Victoria Barnett-Woods -- "Commencing merchant" : forms of feeling and logics of...

1. Things by which one measures one's life. Wealth and poverty in European rural societies / Anton Schuurman -- 2. Economic and cultural differentiation among the Late Medieval and early modern Danish peasantry / Bjørn Poulsen -- 3. Living conditions in the houses of the islands of the Cyclades...