Clothed in meaning : literature, labor, and cotton in nineteenth-century America /

"The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to millions of ordinary people who could now afford to dress in style and assert their physical presence. Millions of laborers toiling in cotton fie...

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Main Author: Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Series:Class, culture.
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