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.