Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Why Materials?
Ursula Klein and E. C. Spary

Part 1 The Production of Materials
Introduction to Part 1
Ursula Klein

2 Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking
Pamela H. Smith

3 Ceramic Nature
Hanna Rose Shell

4 The Production of Silver, Copper, and Lead in the Harz Mountains from Late Medieval Times to the Onset of Industrialization
Christoph Bartels

5 Ink
Adrian Johns

6 Blending Technical Innovation and Learned Natural Knowledge: The Making of Ethers
Ursula Klein

Part 2 Materials in the Market Sphere
Introduction to Part 2
Ursula Klein

7 Enlightened Milk: Reshaping a Bodily Substance into a Chemical Object
Barbara Orland

8 The Sparkling Nectar of Spas; or, Mineral Water as a Medically Commodifiable Material in the Province, 1770–1805
Matthew D. Eddy

9 Liqueurs and the Luxury Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century Paris
E. C. Spary
Part 3 State Interventions
Introduction to Part 3
Ursula Klein

10 Economizing Agricultural Resources in the German Economic Enlightenment
Marcus Popplow

11 The Crisis of English Gunpowder in the Eighteenth Century
Seymour H. Mauskopf

12 Between Craft Routines and Academic Rules: Natural Dyestuffs and the “Art” of Dyeing in the Eighteenth Century
Agustí Nieto-Galan

Secondary Sources
Contributors
Index
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