The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800

by Robert DuPlessis and Robert S. DuPlessis

In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between the mid-seventeenth and late-eighteenth centuries. As a result of European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107105919
• ISBN13: 9781107105911
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"