Fashion history : a global view / Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun.

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"Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Dress, body, culture.
Main Authors: Welters, Linda (Author)
Lillethun, Abby (Author)
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Series:Dress, body, culture.
Subjects:
Fashion > History.
Fashion.
History.
Electronic books.
Genre:
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 224 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Europe and the people without fashion
  • The lexicon of fashion
  • Fashion systems
  • How we got here
  • Fashion systems in prehistory and the Americas
  • Fashion systems and trade networks in the eastern hemisphere
  • Fashion systems in east, south, and southeast Asia
  • Alternative fashion histories in Euro-America
  • Global fashion.