Global Review invites papers on the special topic Cultures of Commerce in the Global Eighteenth Century. We are especially interested in papers that examine intersections between culture and economic activity. Work that reconceives center and periphery is particularly welcome. Questions addressed by papers might include:
- How did indigenous cultures respond to and appropriate European material and nonmaterial culture?
- How did global commerce influence global culture and vice-versa?
- How did encounters with indigenous cultures affect European commercial and cultural activity?
- What new economic opportunities for individuals were opened up or shut down by the new global economy?
- How might a globalized commerce have helped create people who didn’t fit into conventional social categories (e.g., black British writers)?
- How were fictional narratives and rhetorical practice influenced by the global commerce of the eighteenth century?
- How did global commercial networks affect sexual behavior?
- Should we read global commercial activity in the long eighteenth century as enabling and/or standing in the way of tolerance?
- Were legal procedures (trials, notions of rights, etc.) affected by globalized commercial activity?
Papers or proposals (1–2 pp.) should be submitted by 30 November 2015 to the issue’s guest editor, Charles Carroll, at ccarroll@fdu.edu. For accepted proposals, completed papers will be needed by 4 January 2016 for peer review.