Laura F. Edwards (Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American

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Only the Clothes on Her Back

Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Laura F. Edwards is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. She is the award-winning author of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. This is her first project that connects her longstanding needlework interests with her historical work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9780197760406
• ISBN-10: 0197760406
• Artikelnr.: 68140422