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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century - Breward, Christopher (Editor), and Lemire, Beverly (Editor), and Riello, Giorgio (Editor)
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Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways depending on class, gender, and race, and despite geographical distance, ...

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century 2023, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108495561

Hardcover