The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500–1900

1. Introduction
Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Carla L. Peterson, Zita Nunes

Part I. Race and Stock

2. Metamateriality and Blood Purity in Cervantes’s Alcaná de Toledo
Rachel L. Burk

3. The Blood of Others: Breeding Plants, Animals, and White People in the Spanish Atlantic
Ruth Hill

4. “Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge to Hereditary Race in Fletcher and Milton
Jean E. Feerick

5. African Blood, Colonial Money, and Respectable Mulatto Heiresses Reforming Eighteenth-Century England
Lyndon J. Dominique

Part II. Moral Constitution

6. “His blood be on us and on our children”: Medieval Theology and the Demise of Jewish Somatic Inferiority in Early Modern England
M. Lindsay Kaplan

7. Sor Juana’s Appetite: Body, Mind, and Vitality in “First Dream”
Anna More

8. Blood and Character in Early African American Literature
Hannah Spahn

Part III. Medicalizing the Political Body

9. Flowing or Pumping? The Blood of the Body Politic in Burton, Harvey, and Hobbes
Robert Appelbaum

10. Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World
Staffan Müller-Wille

11. “Who Got Bloody?”: The Cultural Meanings of Blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction
James Downs

12. Colonial Transfusions: Cuban Bodies and Spanish Loyalty in the Nineteenth Century
David Sartorius

Avainsanat: History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, History of Science, European History, History of Britain and Ireland