Only the Clothes on Her Back Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States |
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Author:
| Edwards, Laura F. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-776040-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2024 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $48.95 |
Book Description:
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Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.