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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “beverly lemire”
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  • Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures

    The Material World Remade, c.1500–1820

    by Beverly Lemire ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500 as people and things became ever more entangled. She shows how wider populations gained access to more new ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2

    From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Fashion
    Volume II surveys the history of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day. Covering the period beginning with mass industry and ending with calls for sustainability, this volume challenges the meaning of modernity and modernism from a global perspective and reflects on important scholarship that has changed our understanding of the relationship between fashion and colonialism. ... Read more

    $154.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1

    From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Fashion
    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 ... Read more

    $168.09 USD

  • The British Cotton Trade, 1660-1815 Vol 3

    by Beverly Lemire ...
    First published in 2010. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Volume 3 Part III contains Establishing a British Cotton Trade, c. 1730-1815. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The British Cotton Trade, 1660-1815 Vol 4

    by Beverly Lemire ...
    First published in 2010. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Volume 4 Part III contains Establishing a British Cotton Trade, c. 1730-1815, continued. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The British Cotton Trade, 1660-1815 Vol 2

    by Beverly Lemire ...
    First published in 2010. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Volume 2 Part II contains International Trade and the Politics of Consumption, 1690s-1730. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The British Cotton Trade, 1660-1815 Vol 1

    by Beverly Lemire ...
    First published in 2010. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Part contains ‘Early Years of Trade and British Response to Indian Cottons to the late 1600s’. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Women and Credit

    Researching the Past, Refiguring the Future

    Edited by Gail Campbell, Beverly Lemire, Ruth Pearson ...
    Series series Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
    Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded from many previous economic histories. This book fills a significant gap in exploring the vexed relationship between the women and credit across time and space.Providing examples of credit agencies and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Dressing Global Bodies

    The Political Power of Dress in World History

    Edited by Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one’s identity.This collection of essays explores how garments reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal inclinations, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society

    Global Perspectives from Early Modern to Contemporary Times

    Edited by Beverly Lemire ...
    Series series The History of Retailing and Consumption
    Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political, economic and social ramifications of the production, distribution and circulation of goods. Indeed fashion, especially in relation to clothing and textiles, shapes the relationship between self and society in unique ways. In this light, the collected papers in this volume position fashion ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Jane Austen's England

    Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods

    by Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins ...
    An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane ... Read more

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