Dorothy Armstrong

Broschiertes Buch

Threads of Empire

A History of the World in Twelve Carpets

Beschreibung

'A fascinating alternative history covering 2,500 years and a geographical span from Japan to California' NEW STATESMAN 'A revelation . . . The tale of each carpet as Armstrong tells it is untidy and tragic and comical all at once' TESSA HADLEY On the saddles of warlords, draping the walls of palaces, under the feet of presidents, dictators and religious leaders: where there is power, there have been carpets. Threads of Empire is a vivid new history of global power told through the stories of the world's most fascinating rugs. From colonial bureaucrats to Lutheran priests, oil barons to Islamic rules, Scythian chieftains to Churchill and Stalin, textile scholar Dorothy Armstrong explores how these objects have always travelled in the slipstream of power - and how the unwritten histories of those who made them are woven into the fabric beneath our feet.

Autor

Dorothy Armstrong is a historian of the material culture of South, Central and West Asia. She has taught at the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Oxford. She was the Beattie Fellow in Carpet Studies at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, where she is now honorary research fellow. Threads of Empire is her first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781399614245
• ISBN-10: 139961424X
• Artikelnr.: 75670258