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Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and
fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying
the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing
practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining
one's identity. This collection of essays explores how garments
reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal
inclinations, religious norms and conversions. Apparel is now
recognized for its seminal role in global, colonial and
post-colonial engagements and for its role in personal and
collective expression. Patterns of exchange and commerce are
discussed by contributing authors to analyse powerful and diverse
colonial and postcolonial practices. This volume rejects
assumptions surrounding a purportedly all-powerful Western
metropolitan fashion system and instead aims to emphasize how
diverse populations seized agency through the fashioning of dress.
Dressing Global Bodies contributes to a growing scholarship
considering gender and race, place and politics through the close
critical analysis of dress and fashion; it is an indispensable
volume for students of history and especially those interested in
fashion, textiles, material culture and the body across a wide time
frame.
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 as the lens - the critical mediating force -
through which to analyse and understand cultural, economic and
political shifts within a broad spectrum of societies in Europe,
Asia, Africa and America from the seventeenth to twenty-first
centuries. Topics include a seventeenth-century failing fashion
region, the material politics of marketing American abolitionist
fashions, the construction of a fashionable ethos for French
perfumes, and the use and meanings of clothing and textiles in the
politics of Nigerian silk robes and early modern domestic decor in
Europe. This volume represents an important shift in scholarship
towards a more in-depth understanding of the role of fashion in
early modern and modern times and will appeal to international
readers interested in material culture, fashion, consumer studies
and cultural anthropology, among other areas.
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 as the lens - the critical mediating force -
through which to analyse and understand cultural, economic and
political shifts within a broad spectrum of societies in Europe,
Asia, Africa and America from the seventeenth to twenty-first
centuries. Topics include a seventeenth-century failing fashion
region, the material politics of marketing American abolitionist
fashions, the construction of a fashionable ethos for French
perfumes, and the use and meanings of clothing and textiles in the
politics of Nigerian silk robes and early modern domestic decor in
Europe. This volume represents an important shift in scholarship
towards a more in-depth understanding of the role of fashion in
early modern and modern times and will appeal to international
readers interested in material culture, fashion, consumer studies
and cultural anthropology, among other areas.
Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume
reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the
days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to
the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture.
Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume
reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the
days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to
the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture.
Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume
reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the
days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to
the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture.
Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume
reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the
days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to
the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture.
Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume
reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the
days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to
the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture.
Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and
alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had
the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded
from many previous economic histories. This book fills a
significant gap in exploring the vexed relationship between the
women and credit across time and space.
Providing examples of credit agencies and initiatives in both the
developing and developed world, Women and Credit raises important
policy issues and makes valuable suggestions for reconfiguring the
relationship between women and credit. It also answers questions
previously ignored by scholars, yet of vital significance to
women's studies and economic history. What contribution did women
make to the development of industrial capitalism? How does women's
access to credit vary across time and cultures? How has the
development of mico-credit initiatives affected women's economic
position and what role will such initiatives play in the future?
This book is an invaluable resource for anyone in the fields of
Women's studies, economic history, anthropology or
development
Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and
alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had
the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded
from many previous economic histories. This book fills a
significant gap in exploring the vexed relationship between the
women and credit across time and space.
Providing examples of credit agencies and initiatives in both the
developing and developed world, Women and Credit raises important
policy issues and makes valuable suggestions for reconfiguring the
relationship between women and credit. It also answers questions
previously ignored by scholars, yet of vital significance to
women's studies and economic history. What contribution did women
make to the development of industrial capitalism? How does women's
access to credit vary across time and cultures? How has the
development of mico-credit initiatives affected women's economic
position and what role will such initiatives play in the future?
This book is an invaluable resource for anyone in the fields of
Women's studies, economic history, anthropology or
development
Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and
fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying
the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing
practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining
one's identity. This collection of essays explores how garments
reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal
inclinations, religious norms and conversions. Apparel is now
recognized for its seminal role in global, colonial and
post-colonial engagements and for its role in personal and
collective expression. Patterns of exchange and commerce are
discussed by contributing authors to analyse powerful and diverse
colonial and postcolonial practices. This volume rejects
assumptions surrounding a purportedly all-powerful Western
metropolitan fashion system and instead aims to emphasize how
diverse populations seized agency through the fashioning of dress.
Dressing Global Bodies contributes to a growing scholarship
considering gender and race, place and politics through the close
critical analysis of dress and fashion; it is an indispensable
volume for students of history and especially those interested in
fashion, textiles, material culture and the body across a wide time
frame.
From 1600 to 1900 a growing consumerism fired the English economy,
shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the
allocation of resources within families. Everyday business might
mean making a trip to the pawnbroker, giving a loan to a trusted
friend of selling off a coat, all to make ends meet. Both women and
men engaged in this daily budgeting, but women's roles were
especially important in achieving some level of comfort and
avoiding penury. In some communities, the daily practices in place
in the seventeenth century persisted into the twentieth, whilst
other groups adopted new ways, such as using numbers to chart
domestic affairs and turning to the savings banks that appeared in
the nineteenth century. In the material world of the past and in
the changing habits of earlier generations lie crucial turning
points. This book explores these previously under-researched
patterns and practices that gave shape to modern consumer society.
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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of
contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and
political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River
coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made
dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art
and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and
imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process
involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book
looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation
of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous
resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors
re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on
the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between
the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material
culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the
wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern
North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global
Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and
methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural
encounters and connections between local and global communities.
The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material
innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire
explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts
how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive
feature of material life after 1500 as people and things became
ever more entangled. She shows how wider populations gained access
to more new goods than ever before and, through industrious labour
and smuggling, acquired goods that heightened comfort, redefined
leisure and widened access to fashion. Consumption systems shaped
by race and occupation also emerged. Lemire reveals how material
cosmopolitanism flourished not simply in great port cities like
Lima, Istanbul or Canton, but increasingly in rural settlements and
coastal enclaves. The book uncovers the social, economic and
cultural forces shaping consumer behaviour, as well as the ways in
which consumer goods shaped and defined empires and communities.
The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material
innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire
explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts
how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive
feature of material life after 1500 as people and things became
ever more entangled. She shows how wider populations gained access
to more new goods than ever before and, through industrious labour
and smuggling, acquired goods that heightened comfort, redefined
leisure and widened access to fashion. Consumption systems shaped
by race and occupation also emerged. Lemire reveals how material
cosmopolitanism flourished not simply in great port cities like
Lima, Istanbul or Canton, but increasingly in rural settlements and
coastal enclaves. The book uncovers the social, economic and
cultural forces shaping consumer behaviour, as well as the ways in
which consumer goods shaped and defined empires and communities.
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Cotton (Hardcover)
Beverly Lemire
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This book explores the fascinating history and present-day
practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and
cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and
West, of technological and industrial revolution, social
modernization, colonialism and slavery. Cotton's history mirrors
profound global transformations. And cotton remains one of the most
significant mass commodities today. Cotton's track record on labor
conditions in factories and plantations has tarnished its history
and reputation, even as cotton clothes became the hallmark of
modern industrialized society. Cotton expressed popular fashions
and popular politics in dynamic ways. Yet cottons also take other
cultural forms and are part of vibrant craft traditions in many
parts of the world. This book explores the history, impact and
ongoing life of this hugely influential textile.
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