Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 theater 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.