Throughout history; fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political; economic and social ramifications of the production; distribution and circulation of goods. Indeed fashion; especially in relation to clothing and textiles; shapes the relationship between self and society in unique ways. In this light; the collected papers in this volume position fashion as the lens - the critical mediating force - through which to analyse and understand cultural; economic and political shifts within a broad spectrum of societies in Europe; Asia; Africa and America from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries. Topics include a seventeenth-century failing fashion region; the material politics of marketing American abolitionist fashions; the construction of a fashionable ethos for French perfumes; and the use and meanings of clothing and textiles in the politics of Nigerian silk robes and early modern domestic deacute;cor in Europe. This volume represents an important shift in scholarship towards a more in-depth understanding of the role of fashion in early modern and modern times and will appeal to international readers interested in material culture; fashion; consumer studies and cultural anthropology; among other areas.
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