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The Right to Dress - Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,458
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The Right to Dress - Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800 (Hardcover): Giorgio Riello, Ulinka Rublack

The Right to Dress - Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800 (Hardcover)

Giorgio Riello, Ulinka Rublack

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This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2019
Editors: Giorgio Riello • Ulinka Rublack
Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-47591-4
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > General
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LSN: 1-108-47591-4
Barcode: 9781108475914

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