Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History

Dressing Global Bodies contains a collection of essays that address the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one's identity.

Author: Beverly Lemire
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781138493179

About the Author

Beverly Lemire is Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. She publishes widely on early modern consumer practice, fashion, material culture, textiles and trade, most recently Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500-1820 (2018).

Giorgio Riello is Chair of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute, Italy. Among his books are Cotton (2013), Luxury (2016) and Back in Fashion (2020). Giorgio has published extensively on fashion, textiles and global trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period.