Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (Perspectives on the American Revolution)

Brand new. xii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Blue cloth. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover. Contents: High-style vernacular: lifestyles of the colonial elite [more]

Brand new. xii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Blue cloth. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover. Contents: High-style vernacular: lifestyles of the colonial elite / Kevin M. Sweeney --Changing lifestyles and consumer behavior in the colonial Chesapeake / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh --Housing a nation: the transformation of living standards in early America / Edward A. Chappell --Shopping and advertising in colonial America / Richard L. Bushman --The function of fashion in eighteenth-cent[less]

Brand new. xii, 721 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Blue cloth. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover. Contents: High-style vernacular: lifestyles of the colonial elite [more]

Brand new. xii, 721 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Blue cloth. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover. Contents: High-style vernacular: lifestyles of the colonial elite / Kevin M. Sweeney--Changing lifestyles and consumer behavior in the colonial Chesapeake / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh--Housing a nation: the transformation of living standards in early America / Edward A. Chappell--Shopping and advertising in colonial America / Richard L. Bushman--The function of fashion in eighteenth-century America / Karin Calvert--Painters and their customers: aspects of art and money in eighteenth-century America / Margaretta M. Lovell--Music and theatre in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans / Cynthia Adams Hoover--Books and reading in eighteenth-century America / David D. Hall--Early American tourists and the commercialization of leisure / Barbara G. Carson--Sport and the awareness of leisure / Nancy L. Struna--"Baubles of Britain": the American and consumer revolutions of the eighteenth-century / T. H. Breen--The consumer revolution in colonial British America: why demand? / Cary Carson.[less]