Name/Title
The material Atlantic : clothing, commerce, and colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800Entry/Object ID
GT601.D86 2015Description
"In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behavior helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand, and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between the mid-seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries. As a result of commercial networks stretching across much of the planet, men and women across a wide spectrum of ethnicities, social standings, and occupations fashioned their garments from materials old and new, familiar and strange, and novel meaning came to be attached to different fabrics and modes of dress. The Material Atlantic illuminates crucial developments that characterized early modernity, from colonialism and slavery to economic innovation and new forms of social identity." -- BOOK JACKETLexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--america--history--18th century, fashion--america--history--18th century, material culture--america--history--18th century, textile fabrics--america--history--18th century, textile industry--america--history--18th centuryBook Details
Author
Robert S. DuPlessisPublisher
Cambridge University PressPlace Published
City
Cambridge, United KingdomDate Published
2015ISBN
9781107105911, 1107105919Notes
Length: 320General Notes
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ContentsNote
Introduction : Fashioning the Atlantic world -- Dress regimes at the dawn of the shared Atlantic -- Acquiring imported textiles and dress -- Redressing the indigenous Americas -- Dress under constraint -- Dressing free settlers in the "torrid zone" -- Free settler dress in temperate zones -- Atlantic dress regimes : fashions and meanings, implications and ironies.