1st Edition
The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society Global Perspectives from Early Modern to Contemporary Times
Edited By Beverly Lemire
Copyright 2010
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political, economic and social ramifications of the production, distribution and circulation of goods. Indeed fashion, especially in relation to clothing and textiles, shapes the relationship between self and society in unique ways. In this light, the collected papers in this volume position fashion... Read more
Contents: Introduction: fashion and the practice of history: a political legacy, Beverly Lemire; Part I Fashion Practice in Early Modern Europe: Middlemen and the creation of a 'fashion revolution': the experience of Antwerp in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Ilja van Damme; Fabricating the domestic: the material culture of textiles and the social life of the home in early modern Europe, Giorgio Riello; Luxury, fashion and peasantry: the introduction of new commodities in rural Catalan, 1670-1790, Belén Moreno ClaverÃas. Part II The Politics and Practice of Fashion in the Long 19th Century: Fashion sprayed and displayed: the market for perfumery in 19th-century Paris, Eugénie Briot; 'Fashion has extended her influence to the cause of humanity': the transatlantic female economy of the Boston antislavery bazaar, Alice Taylor; Silk and sartorial politics in the Sokoto caliphate (Nigeria), 1804-1903, Colleen E. Kriger. Part III Fashion Strategies, Global Practice: Designing, producing and enacting nationalisms: contemporary Amerindian fashions in Canada, Cory Willmott; Reclaiming materials and fashion-work in the urban Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram; The city, clothing consumption, and the search for 'the latest' in colonial and postcolonial Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, Canada
