{"product_id":"clothing-a-global-history-hardback-9780745631868","title":"Clothing; A Global History (Hardback) 9780745631868","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eClothing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Global History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Ross (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745631868, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 September 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A short book, and an easy read that adds a fresh perspective to studies of global history, colonialism, economic development, military history, and the history of costume.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"No longer viewed as inconsequential, clothing has much to tell historians. \u003ci\u003eClothing\u003c\/i\u003e fits very neatly within this new historiography.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A model work of synthesis - lucid, lively, accessible, globally informed, stuffed with rich and fascinating examples, making good use of theory and comparison, and approaching its topic from economic, political, social and cultural points of view.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Burke, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Robert Ross admirably weaves the history of dress into the broader contours of modernization and the rise and fall of western imperialism. \u003ci\u003eClothing\u003c\/i\u003e offers the reader insights into the power of bodily adornment, both as a tool of western hegemony, and as a potential symbolic medium for nationalist aspirations of the colonized.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Mackey, \u003ci\u003eBirmingham University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places where, for whatever reason, this process has not occurred, or has been reversed, and provides explanations for these developments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first part of this story recounts how the cultural, political and economic power of Europe and, from the later nineteenth century North America, has provided an impetus for the adoption of whatever was at that time standard Western dress. Set against this, Robert Ross shows how the adoption of European style dress, or its rejection, has always been a political act, performed most frequently in order to claim equality with colonial masters, more often a male option, or to stress distinction from them, which women, perhaps under male duress, more frequently did.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book takes a refreshing global perspective to its subject, with all continents and many countries being discussed. It investigates not merely the symbolic and message-bearing aspects of clothing, but also practical matters of production and, equally importantly, distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction. \u003cp\u003e2. The Rules of Dress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Redressing the Old World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. First Colonialisms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Production, care and distribution of clothing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Export of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Reclothed in Rightful Minds: Christian missions and clothing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Re-forming the body: reforming the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Clothing of Colonial Nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Emancipation of Dress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Engendered Acceptance and Rejection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 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