Right to Dress (eBook, ePUB)

Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200-1800
Redaktion: Riello, Giorgio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108643528
• Artikelnr.: 57070681

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List
of contributors; Acknowledgements; The Right to Dress: The World of
Sumptuary Laws, c.1200-1800 Ulinka Rublack and Giorgio Riello; Part I.
Sumptuary Laws in Medieval and early modern Europe: 1. The right to dress:
sartorial politics in Germany, c.1300-1750 Ulinka Rublack; 2. Playing by
the rules? Dressing without sumptuary laws in the low countries from the
fourteenth to the eighteenth century Isis Sturtewagen and Bruno Blondé; 3.
'Outlandish superfluities': luxury and clothing in Scottish and English
sumptuary law, fourteenth to the seventeenth century Maria Hayward; 4.
Regulating sumptuousness: changing configurations of morals, politics, and
economics in Swiss cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries André
Holenstein; 5. Dangerous fashion in Swedish sumptuary law Eva I. Andersson;
Part II. Enacting Sumptuary Laws in Italy: 6. Sumptuary laws in Italy
financial resource and instrument of rule Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli; 7.
Defending the right to dress: two sumptuary law protests in
sixteenth-century Milan Catherine Kovesi; 8. Against the sumptuary regime:
sumptuary prosecutions in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Padova Luca
Molà and Giorgio Riello; Part III. The European Maritime Powers and their
Empires: 9. Luxury, novelty, and nationality: sumptuary legislation in Late
Medieval and Early Modern Spain Amanda Wunder; 10. Sumptuary laws in
Portugal and its empire from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century
Francisco Bethencourt; 11. 'Splendour and magnificence': diplomacy and
sumptuary codes in Early Modern Batavia Adam Clulow; 12. Race, clothing and
identity: sumptuary laws in colonial Spanish America Rebecca Earle; 13.
Sartorial sorting in the colonial Caribbean and North America Robert
DuPlessis; Part IV. Early Modern World Empires: 14. 'Grandeur and show':
clothing, commerce, and the Capital in early modern Russia Matthew P.
Romaniello; 15. Women, minorities, and the changing politics of dress in
the Ottoman Empire, 1650-1830 Madeline Zilfi; 16. Wearing the hat of
loyalty: imperial power and dress reform in Ming Dynasty China BuYun Chen;
17. Regulating excess: the cultural politics of consumption in Tokugawa
Japan Katsuya Hirano; 18. Sumptuary laws in precolonial West Africa: the
examples of Benin and Dahomey Toby Green; Select bibliography; Index.