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The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800

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The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800 - Riello, Giorgio (Editor), and Rublack, Ulinka (Editor)
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This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across ...

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The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800 2020, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108469272

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The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800 2019, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108475914

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