Calculating Worth: A History of Value in Nineteenth-Century North America

Introduction: Rethinking Value in Nineteenth-Century North America, by Joanna Cohen and Laura F. Edwards

Part I. Securing Value
1. Writing Out Value: Textiles, Law, and Economic Exchange, by Laura F. Edwards
2. “There Is No Land That Can Be Called to Be Out of Community”: Abenaki Proprietorship and Seigneurial Valuation in Nineteenth-Century Quebec, by Julia Lewandoski
3. Investigating Infanticide: Gender, Race, and the Value of Healthcare Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America, by Felicity M. Turner
4. “A Murder and Some Furniture”: Gender, Value, and Household Objects in the Early United States, by Alexandra Finley

Part II. Communities of Value
5. Speculative Bodies and the Gender of Value in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
6. “A Young Dog Puppy, Remarkable for His Ugliness”: Constructing and Negotiating Value in London, 1750–1845, by Kate Smith
7. Polly Spaniard’s Whiskey Establishment: Morality, Sovereignty, and the Alcohol Trade in Early Indian Territory, by Jacob F. Lee
8. Valuing “Wealth-in-People” in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Bronwen Everill

Part III. Limits of Value
9. The Value of Prayer, by Susanna Blumenthal
10. The Role of “Value” in Moral Nuisance Cases, by Maureen E. Brady
11. The Value of Suffering in Nineteenth-Century America, by Joanna Cohen

Conclusion: (Re)placing Value, by Joanna Cohen and Laura F. Edwards

Acknowledgments
Notes
Contributors
Index