Table of Contents:
  • Ceramics as Indicators of Status and Class in Eighteenth-Century New York / Sherene Baugher
  • Consumer Choices in White Ceramics: A Comparison of Eleven Early Nineteenth-Century Sites
  • Threshold of Affordability: Assessing Fish Remains for Socioeconomics / David A. Singer
  • Vertebrate Fauna and Socioeconomic Status / Elizabeth J. Reitz
  • Plantation Status and Consumer Choice: A Materialist Framework for Historical Archaeology / Charles E. Orser, Jr
  • Sociosconomic Variation in Late Antebellum Southern Town: The View from Archaeological and Documentary Sources / W. Stephen McBride
  • Status Variation in Antebellum Alexandria: An Archaeological Study of Ceramic Tableware / Steven Judd Shepard
  • Status Indicators: Another Strategy for Interpretation of Settlement Pattern in a Nineteenth-Century Industrial Village / Paul M. Heberling
  • The use of Converging Lines of Evidence for Determining Socioeconomic Status / Patrick H. Garrow
  • Nineteenth-Century Households and Consumer Behavior in Wilmington, Deleware / Charles H. Leedecker
  • Adapting to Factory and City: Illustrations From the Industrialization and Urbanization of Paterson, New Jersey / Lu Ann De Cunzo
  • Working-Class Detroit: Late Victorian Consumer Choices and Status / Mark C. Branstner
  • Miller's Indices and Consumer-Choice Profiles: Status-Related behaviors and White Ceramics / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
  • Factors Influencing Consumer Behavior in Turn-of-the-Century Phoenix, Arizona / Susan L. Henry
  • Gravestones: Reflectors of Ethnicity or Class? / Lynn Clark
  • Epilogue: Middle-Range Theory in Historical Archaeology / mark P. Leone.