Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

ISBN-13: 9780197760406 / Miękka / 2024 / 456 str.

Laura F. (Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American L

Recenzje

This is a book about textiles and the people who owned them. It is also a book about rights and the people who lacked them. Sound intriguing? It is. In her wide-ranging and intricately argued book, Only the Clothes on Her Back, Laura F. Edwards explains how ordinary people participated in the American economy and the legal system before the Civil War despite the fact that most of them lacked formal rights to do so. What made it possible? Textiles. Edwards has written an engaging if complex book that reminds us that there is more to legal history than formal rights."-Marjoleine Kars, ashington Post

O autorze

Laura F. Edwards is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. She is the award-winning author of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. This is her first project that connects her longstanding needlework interests with her historical work.