The Material Atlantic

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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, 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 European settlement and the construction 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 meanings came to be attached to different fabrics and modes of dress. The Material Atlantic illuminates crucial developments that characterised early modernity, from colonialism and slavery to economic innovation and new forms of social identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-14
Mått:162 x 237 x 23 mm
Vikt:780 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:367
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107105911
Utmärkelser:World History Association Bentley Book Prize 2016

Utforska kategorier

Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Robert S. DuPlessis is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations Emeritus at the Department of History, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.

Recensioner i media

'DuPlessis examines the interconnection between commerce and colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800. More specifically, he explains the ways in which clothing (wearing, production, styles) offers a lens into the early modern Atlantic World, providing fascinating insights into global consumption, commerce, and integration during that time and place. His exhaustive research includes missionary and official records; postmortem inventories; visual images (woodcuts, paintings, etc.), which provide excellent fuel for an in-depth examination of modernity (and its place in Atlantic World history); and the role of trade and consumption in shaping society and social norms … This sweeping text proves once more how a single item - in this case, textiles - can serve as an important lens into a wider society, adding vitality and clarity to the past. The book is beautifully done; numerous images add much to the text. This in-depth study is a must for those interested in consumption, commerce, and the textile industry. Summing up: essential.' J. Rankin, Choice

Innehållsförteckning

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.