Chapter 2 The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge of Empire

Chapter 3 People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War

Chapter 4 A Biography of a Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle: The Biucchi Brothers and the Ticinese Community in Nineteenth-Century London

Chapter 5 Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii

Chapter 6 Bodkin Biographies

Chapter 7 Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies

Chapter 8 Mission Santa Catalina’s Mondadiente de Plata (Silver Toothpick): Materiality and the Construction of Self in Spanish La Florida

Chapter 9 Single Shoes and Individual Lives: The Mill Creek Shoe Project

Chapter 10 Beyond Consumption: Social Relationships, Material Culture, and Identity

Chapter 11 Widow Pratt’s Possessions: Individuality and Georgianization in Newport, Rhode Island

Chapter 12 Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity Along the Color Line