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The material Atlantic : clothing, commerce, and colonization in the Atlantic world, 1650-1800 / Robert S. DuPlessis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DuPlessis, Robert S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--America--History--18th century.
- Clothing and dress.
- Fashion--America--History--18th century.
- Fashion.
- Textile industry--America--History--18th century.
- Textile industry.
- Textile fabrics--America--History--18th century.
- Textile fabrics.
- Material culture--America--History--18th century.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-40398-X
- 1-316-40628-8
- 1-316-40536-2
- 1-316-40674-1
- 1-316-40697-0
- 1-316-40651-2
- 1-316-40605-9
- 1-316-22664-6
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