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The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, Jennifer investigates diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite white consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. Far from passive markers of rank or political identification, these objects made Anglo-American society. More from the publisher.