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Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States Cover Image Book

Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States / Laura F. Edwards.

Clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States (portion title)
Edwards, Laura F., (author.).

Summary:

"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 ordinary people and how they made use of their material goods' economic and legal value in the period between the Revolution and the Civil War"--Dust jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 0197568572
  • ISBN: 9780197568576
  • ISBN: 9780197760406
  • ISBN: 0197760406
  • Physical Description: xiii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-415) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction. Elizabeth's and Caty's failed escapes : the materials of legal meaning -- Part I. Old clothes in a new country. Polly's yarn : legal principles ; Roger Taney's long underwear : federalism ; Mr. Robinson's fabrics : merchants ; Rebecca Coles's factory : manufacturers -- Part II. Protective coverings in a hostile world. The Prison Society's problem : currency ; Jane Cooley's loom : capital ; Margaret Ten Eyck's accounts : credit ; Eliza Cauchois's shift : exchange -- Part III. Rags. Sarah Allingham's sheet : enforcement ; Catherine Brennan's haul : criminality ; Charles Lohman's dresses : suppression ; Mrs. Harris's marriage : erasure -- Conclusion. Mrs. Lincoln's old clothes : just material

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