By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates t

This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.

Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the tran

In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husban

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 ac