Laura F Edwards: Only the Clothes on Her Back

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Beschreibung

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.

Über den Autor

Laura F. Edwards is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. She is the award-winning author of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. This is her first project that connects her longstanding needlework interests with her historical work.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning

Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country

Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles

Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism

Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants

Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers

Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World

Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency

Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital

Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit

Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange

Part Three: Rags

Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement

Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality

Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression

Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure

Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	456
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780197568576
ISBN-10:	0197568572
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Edwards, Laura F
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press, USA
Maße:	243 x 168 x 37 mm
Von/Mit:	Laura F Edwards
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.02.2022
Gewicht:	0,763 kg

Artikel-ID: 120115882

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning

Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country

Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles

Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism

Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants

Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers

Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World

Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency

Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital

Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit

Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange

Part Three: Rags

Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement

Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality

Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression

Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure

Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	456
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780197568576
ISBN-10:	0197568572
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Edwards, Laura F
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press, USA
Maße:	243 x 168 x 37 mm
Von/Mit:	Laura F Edwards
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.02.2022
Gewicht:	0,763 kg