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Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States /

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An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society?...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Laura F. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > Law and legislation > United States > History > 19th century.
Textile industry > Law and legislation > United States > History > 19th century.
Textile fabrics > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Law > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Polly's yarn : legal principles
  • Roger Taney's long underwear : federalism
  • Mr. Robinson's fabrics : merchants
  • Rebecca Coles' factory : manufacturers
  • The prison society's problem : currency
  • Jane Cooley's loom : Capital
  • Margaret Ten Eyck's accounts : credit
  • Eliza Cauchois's shift : exchange
  • Sarah Allingham's sheet : enforcement
  • Catherine Brennan's Haul : criminality
  • Charles Lohman's dresses : suppression
  • Mrs. Harris's marriage : erasure. conclusion
  • Mrs. Lincoln's old clothes : just material.