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Only the Clothes on Her Back
Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Buch von Laura F Edwards
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197568576
ISBN-10: 0197568572
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Edwards, Laura F
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
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
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
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197568576
ISBN-10: 0197568572
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Edwards, Laura F
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
Maße: 243 x 168 x 37 mm
Von/Mit: Laura F Edwards
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,763 kg
Artikel-ID: 120115882
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