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