Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: “A More Intimate Acquaintance” / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett -- 1 Household Oeconomy and Chemical Inquiry / Simon Werrett -- 2 The Case of Coal / Lissa L. Roberts and Joppe van Driel -- 3 Capturing the Invisible: Heat, Steam and Gases in France and Great Britain, 1750-1800 / Marie Thébaud-Sorger -- 4 Spreading the Revolution: Guyton’s Fumigating Machine in Spain. Politics, Technology, and Material Culture (1796-1808) / Elena Serrano -- 5 Arsenic in France. The Cultures of Poison During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez -- 6 Relations between the State and the Chemical Industry in France, 1760-1800: The Case of Ceruse / Christine Lehman -- 7 Between Industry and the Environment: Chemical Governance in France, 1770-1830 / Thomas Le Roux -- 8 Renegotiating Debt: Chemical Governance and Money in the Early Nineteenth-Century Dutch Empire / Andreas Weber -- 9 How to Govern Chemical Courses. The Case of the Paris École de pharmacie During Vauquelin’s Direction, 1803-1829 / Sacha Tomic -- 10 Teaching Chemistry in the French Revolution: Pedagogy, Materials and Politics / Bernadette Bensaude Vincent -- 11 The Subversive Humphry Davy: Aristocracy and Establishing Chemical Research Laboratories in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England / Frank A.J.L. James -- 12 Wholesale Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in London, c.1760 – c.1840: Sites, Production and Networks / Anna Simmons -- 13 Chemical Glasgow and its Entrepreneurs, 1760-1860 / John R.R. Christie -- 14 Relations between Industry and Academe in Scotland, and the Case of Dyeing: 1760 to 1840 / Robert G.W. Anderson -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett.

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Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 offers a new view of the period during which Europe took on its modern character and globally dominant position. By exploring the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, it places chemists and chemistry at the center of processes most closely identified with the construction of the modern world. This includes the interactive intensification of material and knowledge production; the growth and management of consumption; environmental changes, regulation of materials, markets, landscapes and societies; and practices embodied in political economy. Rather than emphasize revolutionary breaks and the primacy of innovation-driven change, the volume highlights the continuities and accumulation of incremental changes that framed historical development. Contributors are: Robert G.W. Anderson, Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, John R.R. Christie, Joppe van Driel, Frank A.J.L. James, Christine Lehman, Lissa L. Roberts, Thomas le Roux, Elena Serrano, Anna Simmons, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Sacha Tomic, Andreas Weber, Simon Werrett.

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