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Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World (Hardcover, 0): Suzanna Ivanic, Mary Laven, Andrew Morrall Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World (Hardcover, 0)
Suzanna Ivanic, Mary Laven, Andrew Morrall; Contributions by Alessandra Chessa, Hildegard Diemberger, …
R4,263 Discovery Miles 42 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional narratives of change based on textual sources. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World brings together scholars of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic and Buddhist practices from a range of fields, including history, art history, museum curatorship and social anthropology. The result is an unprecedented account of the wealth and diversity of devotional objects and environments, with a strong emphasis on cultural encounters, connections and exchanges.

A Perfect Fit - The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960 (Hardcover): Gabriel Goldstein, Elizabeth Greenberg A Perfect Fit - The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960 (Hardcover)
Gabriel Goldstein, Elizabeth Greenberg; Foreword by Sylvia A Herskowitz
R1,336 R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Save R193 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store-and you'll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture. Yet its origins in the nineteenth-century "rag trade" of Jewish tailors, cutters, pressers, pedlars, and shopkeepers have yet to be fully explored. In this copiously illustrated volume, scholars from varied backgrounds consider the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward. Drawn from an award-winning exhibition of the same title at the Yeshiva University Museum, A Perfect Fit provides a fascinating view of American society, culture, and industrialisation. Essays address themes such as the development of the menswear industry; the early film industry and its relationship to American fashion; the relationship of the American industry to Britain and France; the acculturation of Jewish immigrants and its impact on American garment making; advertising history and popular culture; and regional centres of manufacturing. This multivalent group of essays compellingly weaves together important threads of the complex history of the American garment industry.

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