Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States

Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States / Laura F. Edwards.

"Only the Clothes on Her Back tells the history of law and commerce in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War through textiles and the legal principles associated with them. Those principles existed not in statutes or treatises, but in social and cultural practices, commonly...

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Main Author: Edwards, Laura F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Property > United States > History > 19th century.
Textile fabrics > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Textile industry > Law and legislation > United States.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 19th century.
Poor laws > United States > History > 19th century.
Law > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Equality before the law > United States > History > 19th century.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Equality before the law
Law > Political aspects
Poor laws
Property
Textile fabrics > Social aspects
Textile industry > Law and legislation
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Polly's yarn : legal principles
  • Roger Taney's long underwear : federalism
  • Mr. Robinson's fabrics : merchants
  • Rebecca Coles' factory : manufacturers
  • The prison society's problem : currency
  • Jane Cooley's loom : Capital
  • Margaret Ten Eyck's accounts : credit
  • Eliza Cauchois's shift : exchange
  • Sarah Allingham's sheet : enforcement
  • Catherine Brennan's Haul : criminality
  • Charles Lohman's dresses : suppression
  • Mrs. Harris's marriage : erasure. conclusion
  • Mrs. Lincoln's old clothes : just material.

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