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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

Volume 1

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Part of The Cambridge History of Fashion

Editors:
Christopher Breward, National Museums of Scotland
Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello, European University Institute, Florence

Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello, BuYun Chen, Michael Scott, Susan Whitfield, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Suraiya Faroqhi, Eugenia Paulicelli, Peter McNeil, Meha Priyadarshini, Steeve O. Buckridge, Colleen E. Kriger, Timon Screech, Ruth Barnes, Rachel Silberstein, Jagjeet Lally, James Grehan, Sarah Fee, Melissa Bellanta

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Date Published: August 2023
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108495561

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Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways depending on class, gender, and race, and despite geographical distance, fashion connected populations across the globe. Fashions flowered and were reseeded, through entanglements of empire, forced and voluntary migration, evolving racial systems, burgeoning sea travel and transcontinental systems.
- Clarifies the commonalities or distinctions of fashion practice and the material flows shaping fashion from antiquity to c. 1800
- Illuminates the complexities of early global ties that shaped material culture
- Sheds light on the different fashion practices across social ranks, and how this characterised world communities across time
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- Date Published: August 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108495561
- length: 584 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 161 x 39 mm
- weight: 1.32kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Global history in the history of fashion, Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello
Part I. Multiple Origins of Fashion:
2. Towards a history of fashion without origins, BuYun Chen
3. Fashion in the ancient world, Michael Scott
4. Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300, Susan Whitfield
5. Distinguishing oneself: the European medieval wardrobe, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli
6. The material regulation of fashion: sumptuary laws in the early modern world, Giorgio Riello
Part II. Early Modern Global Entanglements:
7. Magnificence at the royal courts in the Islamic world, Suraiya Faroqhi
8. Early modern fashion cities: Italy and Europe in a global context, Eugenia Paulicelli
9. Fashioning possibilities: early modern global ties and entangled histories, Beverly Lemire
10. Fashion beyond clothing: early modern visual culture of Eurasian dress, Peter McNeil
11. Fashion and the maritime empires, Meha Priyadarshini
12. Garments of servitude, fabrics of freedom: dress of enslaved and free diaspora African communities in the mid-Atlantic, c. 1700–1840, Steeve O. Buckridge
Part III. Many Worlds of Fashion:
13. 'Black cloth': status and identity in Islamic West Africa, c. 1500–1900, Colleen E. Kriger
14. Fashion and moral concern in early modern Japan, Timon Screech
15. Textiles and fashion in Southeast Asia, Ruth Barnes
16. Fashion in Ming and Qing China, Rachel Silberstein
17. Everyday fashion in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1600–1800, James Grehan
18. Imperialism and fashion: South Asia, c. 1500–1800, Jagjeet Lally
19. Fashion systems in the Indian Ocean World, from ancient times to c. 1850, Sarah Fee
20. Fashion and first peoples in European settler societies, c. 1700–1850, Melissa Bellanta.
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Editors
Christopher Breward, National Museums of Scotland
Christopher Breward is Director of National Museums Scotland. He has published widely on the history of fashion and masculinity, clothing and city life and fashion's relationship with modernity. Notable publications include The Suit: Form, Function and Style (2016), and co-edited volumes London Fashion: from Street to Catwalk (2004) and Fashion's World Cities (2006).
Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta
Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta. She publishes widely on consumer practice, material culture, gender and trade. Notable publications include Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures, c. 1500-1820 (2018) and the co-edited volume Object Lives & Global Histories in Northern North America. Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780-1980 (2021).
Giorgio Riello, European University Institute, Florence
Giorgio Riello is Chair of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Florence and Professor of Global History & Culture, University of Warwick. He publishes extensively on the history of fashion, textiles and trade between Europe and Asia. Among his books are: Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013); Luxury: A Rich History (with P. McNeil) (2016); and Back in Fashion: Western Fashion from the Middle Ages to the Present (2020).
Contributors
Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello, BuYun Chen, Michael Scott, Susan Whitfield, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Suraiya Faroqhi, Eugenia Paulicelli, Peter McNeil, Meha Priyadarshini, Steeve O. Buckridge, Colleen E. Kriger, Timon Screech, Ruth Barnes, Rachel Silberstein, Jagjeet Lally, James Grehan, Sarah Fee, Melissa Bellanta