Kate SmithKate Smith is an associate professor in eighteenth-century history at the University of Birmingham. Her work explores how people related to the material world in the past. Her other books include Material Goods, Moving Hands: Perceiving Production inEngland, 1700–1830 (2014) and The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 (co-edited with Margot Finn, 2018). Read More Read Less