
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197760406ISBN-10:197760406UPC:9780197760406Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Legal History, Women, Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCVA1HV9EF
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197760406ISBN-10:197760406UPC:9780197760406Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Legal History, Women, Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCVA1HV9EF
Laura F. Edwards is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. She is the award-winning author of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the...
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