Laura F. Edwards (Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American
Only the Clothes on Her Back
Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Laura F. Edwards (Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American
Only the Clothes on Her Back
Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
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Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Seitenzahl: 456
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 243mm x 168mm x 37mm
- Gewicht: 778g
- ISBN-13: 9780197568576
- ISBN-10: 0197568572
- Artikelnr.: 61930855
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Seitenzahl: 456
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 243mm x 168mm x 37mm
- Gewicht: 778g
- ISBN-13: 9780197568576
- ISBN-10: 0197568572
- Artikelnr.: 61930855
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 Civil War Era. This is her first project that connects her longstanding needlework interests with her historical work.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning
Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country
Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles
Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism
Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants
Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers
Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World
Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency
Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital
Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit
Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange
Part Three: Rags
Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement
Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality
Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression
Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure
Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning
Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country
Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles
Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism
Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants
Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers
Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World
Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency
Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital
Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit
Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange
Part Three: Rags
Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement
Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality
Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression
Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure
Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning
Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country
Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles
Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism
Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants
Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers
Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World
Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency
Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital
Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit
Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange
Part Three: Rags
Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement
Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality
Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression
Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure
Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning
Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country
Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles
Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism
Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants
Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers
Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World
Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency
Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital
Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit
Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange
Part Three: Rags
Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement
Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality
Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression
Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure
Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material
Notes
Bibliography
Index