The material Atlantic: clothing, commerce, and colonization in the Atlantic world, 1650-1800

"In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behavior helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns,...

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Main Author: DuPlessis, Robert ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016
In:Year: 2016
Reviews:[Rezension von: DuPlessis, Robert S., The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800] (2016) (Lynn, Michael R.)
Further subjects:B Textile fabrics History 18th century America
B Textile industry History 18th century America
B Fashion (America) History 18th century
B Fashion History 18th century America
B Material Culture History 18th century America
B Clothing
B Fashion
B Commerce
B The Americas
B History 1650-1800
B Clothing and dress (America) History 18th century
B Textile production
B Textile industry (America) History 18th century
B Colonialism
B Clothing and dress History 18th century America
B Cloth trade
B Cultural exchange
B Material Culture (America) History 18th century
B Atlantic
B Textile fabrics (America) History 18th century
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Summary:"In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behavior helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand, and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between the mid-seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries. As a result of commercial networks stretching across much of the planet, men and women across a wide spectrum of ethnicities, social standings, and occupations fashioned their garments from materials old and new, familiar and strange, and novel meaning came to be attached to different fabrics and modes of dress. The Material Atlantic illuminates crucial developments that characterized early modernity, from colonialism and slavery to economic innovation and new forms of social identity." --Book jacket
Introduction : Fashioning the Atlantic world -- Dress regimes at the dawn of the shared Atlantic -- Acquiring imported textiles and dress -- Redressing the indigenous Americas -- Dress under constraint -- Dressing free settlers in the "torrid zone" -- Free settler dress in temperate zones -- Atlantic dress regimes : fashions and meanings, implications and ironies
Item Description:"Includes bibliographical references and index"
ISBN:1107105919