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The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas
Author(s): Roces, Mina; Edwards, Louise
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Volume Condition: | As New |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Sussex Academic Press |
| Publication Year: | 2010 |
| Publication Place: | Eastbourne, UK |
| ISBN: | 9781845193997 |
| Book ID: | 006499 |
| Catalogue(s): | History - The Americas ◇ Fashion, Costume, Dress |
x, 276pp, central photographic plate section, in-text photographs; mainly black and white. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 12mo.Examines how the politics of dress has been incorporated in constructions of nationhood in both Asia and the Americas, and reveals how politicians and political regimes manipulate sumptuary practices in order to create national identities, to legitimise hierarchies of power or to build personal political identities.
Keywords:
American History
Costume
Dress
Fashion
