Beverly Lemire is Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair Emerita in the Department of History, Classics, & Religion at the University of Alberta. Her award-winning publications address the power of fashion across British, Atlantic and global histories, and she is a co-editor of The Cambridge Global History of Fashion (2023).

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• 1. The power of fashion: mobility and material life in the early modern global age. Sidebar: coffee house moments: fashion, mobility and race; 2. Fashioning whiteness: empire, race and material culture in the Atlantic world. Sidebar: laborious laundry, a technology tale; 3. Fashioning empire: mobility and subaltern agency in imperial worlds. Sidebar: sea chests: material culture in a mobile world; 4. A question of trousers: seafaring, masculinity and the making of an imperial fashion. Sidebar: material politics and a pair of trousers; 5. Imperial livery: masquerades and empire, race and resistance. Sidebar: translation and invention: an Ivanhoe masquerade ball in Calcutta; Bibliography.

Beverly Lemire is Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair Emerita in the Department of History, Classics, & Religion at the University of Alberta. Her award-winning publications address the power of fashion across British, Atlantic and global histories, and she is a co-editor of The Cambridge Global History of Fashion (2023).

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• 1. The power of fashion: mobility and material life in the early modern global age. Sidebar: coffee house moments: fashion, mobility and race; 2. Fashioning whiteness: empire, race and material culture in the Atlantic world. Sidebar: laborious laundry, a technology tale; 3. Fashioning empire: mobility and subaltern agency in imperial worlds. Sidebar: sea chests: material culture in a mobile world; 4. A question of trousers: seafaring, masculinity and the making of an imperial fashion. Sidebar: material politics and a pair of trousers; 5. Imperial livery: masquerades and empire, race and resistance. Sidebar: translation and invention: an Ivanhoe masquerade ball in Calcutta; Bibliography.

Beverly Lemire is Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair Emerita in the Department of History, Classics, & Religion at the University of Alberta. Her award-winning publications address the power of fashion across British, Atlantic and global histories, and she is a co-editor of The Cambridge Global History of Fashion (2023).

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• 1. The power of fashion: mobility and material life in the early modern global age. Sidebar: coffee house moments: fashion, mobility and race; 2. Fashioning whiteness: empire, race and material culture in the Atlantic world. Sidebar: laborious laundry, a technology tale; 3. Fashioning empire: mobility and subaltern agency in imperial worlds. Sidebar: sea chests: material culture in a mobile world; 4. A question of trousers: seafaring, masculinity and the making of an imperial fashion. Sidebar: material politics and a pair of trousers; 5. Imperial livery: masquerades and empire, race and resistance. Sidebar: translation and invention: an Ivanhoe masquerade ball in Calcutta; Bibliography.