The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Examines the challenges of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day, from decolonisation to sustainability.

Christopher Breward (Edited by), Beverly Lemire (Edited by), Giorgio Riello (Edited by)

9781108495554, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 August 2023

620 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 4.2 cm, 1.37 kg

Volume II surveys the history of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day. Covering the period beginning with mass industry and ending with calls for sustainability, this volume challenges the meaning of modernity and modernism from a global perspective and reflects on important scholarship that has changed our understanding of the relationship between fashion and colonialism. Empires shifted and new powers rose, with fashion marking and contending with this change. The volume concludes with a critical view of fashion and globalisation, and explores the deep connections between the fashion industry, the global economy, and the politics of production and wearing in the contemporary world.

Part IV. Fashion, Modernism and Modernity: 21. Fashionable masculinities in England and beyond: renunciation and dandyism, 1800–1939, Christopher Breward
22. Fashion in capitalism: another modernity, 1800 to the present, Ulrich Lehmann
23. Fashion and youth in western societies: street style and race, c. 1830–1940, Vivienne Richmond
24. Fashion and time in China's twentieth century, Antonia Finnane
25. The totalitarian state and fashion in the twentieth century, Djurdja Bartlett
26. Hollywood and beyond: fashion and the fiction film, Stella Bruzzi
27. Fashion and non-fashion cultures, Sophie Woodward
28. Fashion and hypermodernity, Marco Pecorari
Part V. Fashion, Colonialism and Post-colonialism: 29. Chinese coolie hats: global dialogues on a sign of servitude, c. 1840–1940, Miki Sugiura
30. Crumbling empires and emerging nations: fashion in Europe, c. 1860–1914, Jonathan C. Kaplan
31. Gender, nation, fashion and modernities in the Asia-Pacific, 1900 to the present, Mina Roces
32. The global politics of wearing, buying, and selling European-style dress, c. 1900–1930, Hissako Anjo, Emi Goto and Miki Sugiura
33. Fashioning diasporas: Jewish and African experiences, c. 1800–1950, Susan B. Kaiser and Nina L. Cole
34. Colonial fashion histories, Karen Tranberg Hansen
Part VI. Fashion Systems and Globalisation: 35. Manufacturing fashion in the postwar period, Véronique Pouillard
36. Producing and predicting fashion in twentieth-century America and Europe, Regina Lee Blaszczyk
37. The origins and development of haute couture, 1858 to now, Claire Wilcox
38. Couture, Prêt-à-porter and fast fashion since 1945, Simona Segre Reinach
39. Casualwear and its birth in Japan, Toby Slade
40. Fashion and globalization: the politics of hijab, Liz Bucar
41. Streetscape, shop window, museum vitrine: displaying fashion, c. 1800–2000, Julia Petrov
42. Fashion and global sustainability, Lucy Norris.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]