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Hardcover Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States Book
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ISBN: 0197568572

ISBN13: 9780197568576

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? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ordinary people and how they made...

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