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A foot in the past : consumers, producers and footwear in the long eighteenth century / Giorgio Riello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riello, Giorgio.
- Series:
- Pasold studies in textile history ; 15.
- Pasold studies in textile history ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Footwear--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Footwear.
- Footwear industry--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Footwear industry.
- Footwear--France--History--18th century.
- Footwear industry--France--History--18th century.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
- Clothing and dress.
- History.
- France.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Pasold Research Fund/Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- During the Enlightenment, in a society that was increasingly urbanised and mobile, footwear was an essential item of apparel. This book considers not only the practical but also the symbolic meaning of footwear in France and England during the period from the end of the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199292256
- OCLC:
- 62796082
- Publisher Number:
- 9780199292257
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