{"product_id":"the-right-to-dress-sumptuary-laws-in-a-global-perspective-c-1200-1800-hardback-9781108475914","title":"The Right to Dress; Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800 (Hardback) 9781108475914","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Right to Dress\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePresents a global history of dress regulation and debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGiorgio Riello (Edited by), Ulinka Rublack (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108475914, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e520 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.97 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'When did clothing become a crime? This collection of essays by leading experts shows how anxiety over expenditure and ownership is a long-standing global phenomena. Ranging across Europe and its colonies, and extending into the Chinese, Russian and Ottoman empires, this book brings to life the complexities of sumptuary laws and their application.' Evelyn Welch, King's College London\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e List of maps\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e The Right to Dress: The World of Sumptuary Laws, c.1200–1800 Ulinka Rublack and Giorgio Riello\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Sumptuary Laws in Medieval and early modern Europe: 1. The right to dress: sartorial politics in Germany, c.1300–1750 Ulinka Rublack\u003cbr\u003e 2. Playing by the rules? Dressing without sumptuary laws in the low countries from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century Isis Sturtewagen and Bruno Blondé\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Outlandish superfluities': luxury and clothing in Scottish and English sumptuary law, fourteenth to the seventeenth century Maria Hayward\u003cbr\u003e 4. Regulating sumptuousness: changing configurations of morals, politics, and economics in Swiss cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries André Holenstein\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dangerous fashion in Swedish sumptuary law Eva I. Andersson\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Enacting Sumptuary Laws in Italy: 6. Sumptuary laws in Italy financial resource and instrument of rule Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli\u003cbr\u003e 7. Defending the right to dress: two sumptuary law protests in sixteenth-century Milan Catherine Kovesi\u003cbr\u003e 8. Against the sumptuary regime: sumptuary prosecutions in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Padova Luca Molà and Giorgio Riello\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The European Maritime Powers and their Empires: 9. Luxury, novelty, and nationality: sumptuary legislation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain Amanda Wunder\u003cbr\u003e 10. Sumptuary laws in Portugal and its empire from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century Francisco Bethencourt\u003cbr\u003e 11. 'Splendour and magnificence': diplomacy and sumptuary codes in Early Modern Batavia Adam Clulow\u003cbr\u003e 12. Race, clothing and identity: sumptuary laws in colonial Spanish America Rebecca Earle\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sartorial sorting in the colonial Caribbean and North America Robert DuPlessis\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Early Modern World Empires: 14. 'Grandeur and show': clothing, commerce, and the Capital in early modern Russia Matthew P. Romaniello\u003cbr\u003e 15. Women, minorities, and the changing politics of dress in the Ottoman Empire, 1650–1830 Madeline Zilfi\u003cbr\u003e 16. Wearing the hat of loyalty: imperial power and dress reform in Ming Dynasty China BuYun Chen\u003cbr\u003e 17. Regulating excess: the cultural politics of consumption in Tokugawa Japan Katsuya Hirano\u003cbr\u003e 18. Sumptuary laws in precolonial West Africa: the examples of Benin and Dahomey Toby Green\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913125945624,"sku":"9781108475914","price":111.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108475914i.jpg?v=1696705863","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-right-to-dress-sumptuary-laws-in-a-global-perspective-c-1200-1800-hardback-9781108475914","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}