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The core of this book is an imaginative and insightful use of secondary sources, individual biography, and material culture to reveal the processes of the anglicization of eighteenth-century consumer culture. Jonathan M. Chu, University of Massachusetts Boston, Business History 45:2, April 2003

The core of this book is an imaginative and insightful use of secondary sources, individual biography, and material culture to reveal the processes of the anglicization of eighteenth-century consumer culture. -Jonathan M. Chu, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Business History 45:2, April 2003

Hunter's fine study examines the cultural transformation of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, from Puritan communities into diverse Georgian cities that were linked to the Atlantic world. -Choice, February 2002, Vol. 39, No. 6 The strength of Hunter's analysis lies in her emphasis on patterns of consumption, rather than production, as well as in her dependence on detailed case studies to illustrate each shift in this budding American consumerism... Her analysis makes a significant contribution to the study of early American economic culture. -Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 78, No. 1 The core of this book is an imaginative and insightful use of secondary sources, individual biography, and material culture to reveal the processes of the anglicization of eighteenth-century consumer culture. -Jonathan M. Chu, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Business History 45:2, April 2003 Phyllis Hunter makes a significant contribution to the scholarly debate on early American social and cultural change. Ambitious in scope and well-grounded in the historical evidence, Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World is an important, accessible book on a hot topic. Hunter's clarity and sound scholarship will make this book essential reading. -Christopher Clark, University of Warwick

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Phyllis Whitman Hunter is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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