Why materials? / Ursula Klein and E.C. Spary The production of materials / Ursula klein Vermilion, mercury, blood, and lizards: matter and meaning in metalworking / Pamela H. Smith Ceramic nature / Hanna Rose Shell The production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz mountains from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization / Christoph Bartels Ink / Adrian Johns Blending technical innovation and learned natural knowledge: the making of ethers / Ursula Klein Materials in the market sphere / Ursula Klein Enlightened milk: reshaping a bodily substance into a chemical object / Barbara Orland The sparkling nectar of spas, or, mineral water as a medically commodifiable material in the province, 1770-1805 / Matthew D. Eddy Liqueurs and the luxury marketplace in eighteenth-century Paris / E. C. Spary State interventions / Ursula Klein Economizing agricultural resources in the German economic enlightenment / Marcus Popplow The crisis of English gunpowder in the eighteenth century / Seymour H. Mauskopf Between craft routines and academic rules: natural dyestuffs and the "art" of dyeing in the eighteenth century / Agustí Nieto-Galan. | 
