The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

Imaginatively developed, extensively documented, and well written. Recommended."-Choice

Forms a powerful testament to the value of true interdisciplinarity in its ability to advance histories of portraiture, decorative arts, and print culture as well as civil society, political identity, and gender and sexuality."-William and Mary Quarterly

Represents some of the best of material culture scholarship, blending new information and ideas that are stretched to thought-provoking but not always documentable observations."-Panorama: Journal of the AHAA

This is an exceptional example of the recent turn in material culture studies toward object assemblages."-Journal of Southern History

Van Horn's work reveals how objects and people were integral to the networks that defined new individual and group identities within an emerging social order."-Journal of Southern History

Provides a convincing argument for the centrality of material culture studies to the ever-evolving American historical imagination. . . . Van Horn offers deft integration of material, visual, textual, emotional, and embodied evidence."-Winterthur Portfolio

An important contribution to understanding how elite identity was produced during a critical period in American history."-Journal of American History

In her insightful analysis of prints of port municipalities, portraits of men and women of status, tombstones, and ornate furniture, Jennifer Van Horn's study of British America reveals . . . [a] compelling story. . . . [of] a consumer revolution [that] greatly influenced the American Revolution."-Eighteenth-Century Studies