The texture of change : dress, self-fashioning, and history in western Africa, 1700-1850 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Benjamin, Jody (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2024]
Series:	New African histories series.
Subjects:	Clothing and dress > Africa, West > History. Textile fabrics > Africa, West > History. Clothing trade > Africa, West > History. Africa, West > History > To 1884. Textiles et tissus > Afrique occidentale > Histoire. Afrique occidentale > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1884. DESIGN / Textile & Costume. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade.
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Table of Contents:

Twelve Metres of Cloth and a Magnificent Bubu: Bamana Kaarta between Sahel and Sea
Cotton Cloth in Western Africa: Barafulas, Bafetas, and Piezas De India
Centering the Sahel in the Early Eighteenth Century: Indigo Dyers, Precarity, and the Pull of the Faleme River Valley, 1730-1750
The Politics of Dress at Saint Louis during the Age of Islamic Revolution, 1785-1815
Merchants, Maroons, Mahdis and Migrants on the Upper Guinea Coast, 1795-1825
Textures of a Changing Era: Old Red Coats, Groundnuts and Afro-Atlantic missionaries, 1825-1850