The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800

ISBN-13: 9781107105911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 367 str.

Robert Duplessis

Opis

A fascinating account of the trade patterns and consumption practices that arose following European colonisation of the Atlantic world.

Recenzje

'This is a fascinating book and a major accomplishment: although dress is universal (even though some Europeans did not always see Amerindian and African styles as dress), it is often overlooked in historical studies. By bringing cloth and clothing to the fore, DuPlessis has given us a new and remarkable understanding of the Atlantic World and the many groups of people who shaped it.' Joan Bristol, Journal of Social History

Spis treści

Introduction: fashioning the Atlantic world; 1. Dress regimes at the dawn of the shared Atlantic; 2. Acquiring imported textiles and dress; 3. Redressing the indigenous Americas; 4. Dress under constraint; 5. Dressing free settlers in the 'torrid zone'; 6. Free settler dress in temperate zones; 7. Atlantic dress regimes: fashions and meanings, implications and ironies; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.