The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography

by Fred Miller Robinson

Book Overview

Reflects a new understanding of modernism by following the fortunes of a single item of fashion. "When Fred Miller Robinson tugs the bowler from the closet in The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography , a wealth of cultural and social baggage comes tumbling out after it.-- Esquire "Entertaining and enlightening. . . . A scholarly, thoughtful, and well-documented cultural critique.-- Journal of Popular Culture "A hundred years of Western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807820733
• ISBN13: 9780807820735
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 10.0"