"This book explores how Americans adjusted their economic behavior to new market incentives that resulted from the American Revolution. Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt...

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...