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The fashion history reader : global perspectives / edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil.

Contributor(s): Riello, Giorgio | McNeil, Peter, 1966-Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2010Description: xxvi, 566 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415493246 (pbk.) :; 0415493242 (pbk.) :; 9780415493239 (hbk.) :; 0415493234 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Fashion -- HistoryDDC classification: 391'.009
Contents:
Fashion's 'origins': the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Fashion and social order: the early modern world - The fashion revolution: the 'long' eighteenth century - Between luxury and leisure: the nineteenth century - Westernisation and colonialism: the age of empiresModern to hyper/ultra-modern: the twentieth century.
Summary: This is an innovative work that provides a broad introduction to the complex literature in the fields of fashion studies, and dress and fashion history. The book connects a diverse range of approaches and incorporates non-Western literature within better-known studies from Europe and North America.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fashion's 'origins': the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Fashion and social order: the early modern world - The fashion revolution: the 'long' eighteenth century - Between luxury and leisure: the nineteenth century - Westernisation and colonialism: the age of empiresModern to hyper/ultra-modern: the twentieth century.

This is an innovative work that provides a broad introduction to the complex literature in the fields of fashion studies, and dress and fashion history. The book connects a diverse range of approaches and incorporates non-Western literature within better-known studies from Europe and North America.

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