Clothing – A Global History, or, the Imperialists′ New Clothes Ross Hardback

Clothing\n\nA Global History\n\nRobert Ross (Author)\n\n9780745631868, Polity Press\n\nHardback, published 5 September 2008\n\n232 pages\n23.4 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg\n\n\""A short book, and an easy read that adds a fresh perspective to studies of global history, colonialism, economic development, military history, and the history of costume.\""\nJournal of Interdisciplinary History\n\n\""No longer viewed as inconsequential, clothing has much to tell historians. Clothing fits very neatly within this new historiography.\""\n Journal of Social History \n\""A model work of synthesis - lucid, lively, accessible, globally informed, stuffed with rich and fascinating examples, making good use of theory and comparison, and approaching its topic from economic, political, social and cultural points of view.\""\n Peter Burke, University of Cambridge \n\""Robert Ross admirably weaves the history of dress into the broader contours of modernization and the rise and fall of western imperialism. Clothing o]