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" Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking About Globalization in the Early Modern World,” submitted to the Journal of World History , March 2006.

“ Poor Consumers as Global Consumers: the Diffusion of Tea and Coffee Drinking in the Eighteenth Century ,” under revision for The Economic History Review , June 2005.

“Goods at Pawn: the Overlapping Worlds of Material Possessions and Family Finance in Early Modern Amsterdam,” forthcoming in Social Science History, 2006.

“Inequality Among the Poor of Eighteenth Century Amsterdam,” forthcoming in Explorations in Economic History, 2006.

“After-Death Inventories as a Source for the Study of Material Culture, Economic Well-Being, and Household Formation Among the Poor of 18 th c. Amsterdam,” Historical Methods, Vol. 39, No. 1, Winter, 2006: 10-23.