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Paper summaries and discussions from the Center for Eighteenth-Century Study's fifteenth annual Workshop ("Eighteenth-Century Futures") and the 2015 Kenshur Prize event. 

Published: 2018-07-27

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Front Matter

From the Editor

Rebecca Spang

i-ii

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Kenshur Prize for Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Smuggling, Police, and Empire:

Michael Kwass’s Contraband and the Eighteenth-Century History of Consumption

Rebecca Spang

1-3

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Vivid History

Kwass’s Contraband and the Good/Bad Eighteenth Century

Helen Thompson

4-6

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Reflections on Contraband

What a Smuggler Can Teach Us about Writing Eighteenth-Century Global History

Michael Kwass

7-10

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Bloomington Workshop (annual spring conference)

Call for Papers: Eighteenth-Century Futures

The Center

11-13

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Program, Eighteenth-Century Futures

The Center

14-15

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About the Participants

The Center

16-18

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Futures Present

Rebecca Spang

19-20

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Slow Time and Eighteenth-Century Futures (summary)

Jonathan Sachs

21-27

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Discussion: papers by Jonathan Sachs and Daniel Fulda (transcript)

The Participants

28-51

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Cooperson's Paper, Mercier's Numbers (comment)

Joanna Stalnaker

52-54

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What Happened to Revolutions? (comment)

Rebecca Spang

55-58

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Discussion: Koselleck's Futures (transcript)

The Participants

59-76

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Future's Prospects (summary)

Appropriating the Past and Looking toward the Future

John Han

77-80

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Poetic Genres of Futurity (comment)

Nicholas Williams

81-82

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Discussion of papers by Samuel Baker and John Han (transcript)

The Participants

83-103

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The Piratical Counterfactual (summary)

Manushag Powell

104-108

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The Idea of Projects in Eighteenth-Century Britain (summary)

David Alff

109-113

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What's (not) Happening? (comment)

Rachel Seiler-Smith

114-115

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Discussion of papers by David Alff and Manushag Powell (transcript)

The Participants

116-139

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Time's Arrow (abstract)

Jesse Molesworth

140

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Comments from the Past and from the Future (comment)

Sarah Knott

141-143

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Anthropocene, not Anthropocentric (abstract)

Richard Nash

144-145

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Reading and the Materiality of the Future (summary)

Christina Lupton

146-149

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Discussion of papers by Christina Lupton and Richard Nash (transcript)

The Participants

153-173

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