Andrea Feeser is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory, and Criticism at Clemson University, USA. Maureen Daly Goggin is Chair in the Department of English, Arizona State University, USA. Beth Fowkes Tobin is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia, USA.

Contents: Introduction: the value of color, Andrea Feeser, Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin; Part I Color's Social and Cultural Meanings: Colorizing New England's burying grounds, Jason D. LaFountain; The extra-ordinary powers of red in 18th- and 19th-century English needlework, Maureen Daly Goggin; Coloring the sacred in 16th-century Central Mexico, Molly Harbour Basset and Jeanette Favrot Peterson; The expense of ink and wastes of shame: poetic generation, black ink, and material waste in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Mitchell M. Harris; 'Luscious colors and glossy paint': the taste for China and the consumption of color in 18th-century England, Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding. Part II Producing and Exchanging Pigments and Dyes: Seeking red: the production and trade of cochineal dye in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1750-1821, Jeremy Baskes; Red ochre, vermilion and the transatlantic cosmetic encounter, Jean-François Lozier; Indian Indigo, Padmini Tolat Balaram; The exceptional and the expected: red, white, and black made blue in colonial South Carolina, Andrea Feeser; Prussian Blue: transfers and trials, Sarah Lowengard. Part III Making Colored Objects: Glass bracelets in the medieval and early modern Middle East: design and color as identity markers, Stéphanie Karine Boulogne; The colorful court of Gabriel Bethlen and Catherine of Brandenburg, ÿva Deák; The evolution of blackface cosmetics on the early modern stage, Richard Blunt; Crafts of color: Tupi Tapirage in early colonial Brazil, Amy Buono; Colors and techniques of 18th-century Chinese wallpaper: Blair House as case study, Elaine M. Gibbs; Butterflies, spiders, and shells: coloring natural history illustrations in late 18th-century Britain, Beth Fowkes Tobin; Bibliography; Index.