The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
ISBN-10
1108851487
ISBN-13
9781108851480
Category
History
Pages
849
Language
English
Published
2023-07-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello

Description

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.

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