Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Autor Laura F. Edwardsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197760406
ISBN-10: 0197760406
Pagini: 456
Ilustrații: 45 black and white halftones
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197760406
Pagini: 456
Ilustrații: 45 black and white halftones
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Laura Edwards has produced a masterpiece that forever changes how we see the nineteenth century's ubiquitous textiles and the women who worked, stole, hoarded and wore them. Only a scholar like Edwards, with insights that go beyond conventional notions of property and ownership, could recover the astonishing stories about how those without rights still exercised legal dominion over fabric and their economic lives. Only the Clothes on Her Back smartly debunks simple cultural truisms about women and their adornments, revealing how ordinary Americans, even those marginalized in public law, connected to global markets and remade those forces by their own terms in the local courthouses of the early Republic.
With elegance, creativity, and a fitting touch of wit, Laura Edwards unfolds the world of early American textiles in this brilliantly original study of gender, race, material exchange, and the law. The seemingly small arena of gowns, sheets, and hosiery as revealed through her careful research proves massively impactful to those who were marginalized by society as well as to merchants and manufacturers. While enslaved people, free Blacks, and white women could not claim personal rights, they could and did own all manner of fabrics, which they saved, traded, and defended in a complex legal culture that defies our modern expectations but would not last. The Clothes on Her Back transforms our understanding not only of lace, looms, and law, but also of nineteenth-century American lives.
In Only the Clothes on Her Back, Laura Edwards combines daunting archival research with a brilliant synthesis of generations of scholarship to put women, both Black and white, at the heart of American legal and economic history between the Revolution and the Civil War. Laced with wit, and knitting race, class, and gender into a seamless fabric, Edwards poignantly and powerfully brings home what was gained and lost when America became 'a nation of rights.'
In this revelatory book, Laura Edwards explains the extraordinary significance that textiles once held in the American economy and legal system. A book of scrupulous research and a profoundly revisionist account of the workings of property, gender and the law in America between the Revolution and the 1860s.
This is a book about textiles and the people who owned them. It is also a book about rights and the people who lacked them. Sound intriguing? It is. In her wide-ranging and intricately argued book, Only the Clothes on Her Back, Laura F. Edwards explains how ordinary people participated in the American economy and the legal system before the Civil War despite the fact that most of them lacked formal rights to do so. What made it possible? Textiles. Edwards has written an engaging if complex book that reminds us that there is more to legal history than formal rights."-Marjoleine Kars, ashington Post
In Only the Clothes on Her Back, Edwards has addressed an important but underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century economic life. She reveals the ways in which textiles shaped, and were shaped by, people at the margins of economic and legal culture in America. She shows how clothing can be a useful and generative lens through which to understand law and power in the nineteenth century. Edwards's triumph is that she has shown through her deft and incisive analysis that textiles influenced much more than the clothes that people wore. Instead, textiles shaped the very nature of law and economy during the nineteenth century.
The study is truly a tour de force showcasing deft analysis, deep creativity, and penetrating research. Readers will find this book deeply rewarding and incredibly enlightening.
Laura F. Edwards... has written a book... [that] decidedly recasts our understanding of the material struggles of some of the 'dependent classes' (married women, slaves, servants) to which most Americans belonged in those decades... Making use of diligent, painstaking research in often untouched, sometimes crumbling local court records, Edwards persuasively demonstrates that in the unsystematized, highly decentralized American legal system before the Civil War, people without the right to property nonetheless owned it and had the opportunity to secure it in court... In its research, its interpretation, and its implications, Only the Clothes on Her Back is unspeakably significant.
Edwards's new study... reveal[s] the national scope of the ephemeral post-Revolutionary localized political culture that offered protection to the propertyless. But it does a great deal more: it illuminates a hidden history of female economic power grounded in the ownership of textiles... Edwards makes it clear that the legal principles that governed the textile market were highly regulated, widely understood, and enforced by courts throughout the republic without open acknowledgment.
This book is helpful in drawing our attention to the perhaps usually invisible legal principles behind the ownership of these objects.
With elegance, creativity, and a fitting touch of wit, Laura Edwards unfolds the world of early American textiles in this brilliantly original study of gender, race, material exchange, and the law. The seemingly small arena of gowns, sheets, and hosiery as revealed through her careful research proves massively impactful to those who were marginalized by society as well as to merchants and manufacturers. While enslaved people, free Blacks, and white women could not claim personal rights, they could and did own all manner of fabrics, which they saved, traded, and defended in a complex legal culture that defies our modern expectations but would not last. The Clothes on Her Back transforms our understanding not only of lace, looms, and law, but also of nineteenth-century American lives.
In Only the Clothes on Her Back, Laura Edwards combines daunting archival research with a brilliant synthesis of generations of scholarship to put women, both Black and white, at the heart of American legal and economic history between the Revolution and the Civil War. Laced with wit, and knitting race, class, and gender into a seamless fabric, Edwards poignantly and powerfully brings home what was gained and lost when America became 'a nation of rights.'
In this revelatory book, Laura Edwards explains the extraordinary significance that textiles once held in the American economy and legal system. A book of scrupulous research and a profoundly revisionist account of the workings of property, gender and the law in America between the Revolution and the 1860s.
This is a book about textiles and the people who owned them. It is also a book about rights and the people who lacked them. Sound intriguing? It is. In her wide-ranging and intricately argued book, Only the Clothes on Her Back, Laura F. Edwards explains how ordinary people participated in the American economy and the legal system before the Civil War despite the fact that most of them lacked formal rights to do so. What made it possible? Textiles. Edwards has written an engaging if complex book that reminds us that there is more to legal history than formal rights."-Marjoleine Kars, ashington Post
In Only the Clothes on Her Back, Edwards has addressed an important but underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century economic life. She reveals the ways in which textiles shaped, and were shaped by, people at the margins of economic and legal culture in America. She shows how clothing can be a useful and generative lens through which to understand law and power in the nineteenth century. Edwards's triumph is that she has shown through her deft and incisive analysis that textiles influenced much more than the clothes that people wore. Instead, textiles shaped the very nature of law and economy during the nineteenth century.
The study is truly a tour de force showcasing deft analysis, deep creativity, and penetrating research. Readers will find this book deeply rewarding and incredibly enlightening.
Laura F. Edwards... has written a book... [that] decidedly recasts our understanding of the material struggles of some of the 'dependent classes' (married women, slaves, servants) to which most Americans belonged in those decades... Making use of diligent, painstaking research in often untouched, sometimes crumbling local court records, Edwards persuasively demonstrates that in the unsystematized, highly decentralized American legal system before the Civil War, people without the right to property nonetheless owned it and had the opportunity to secure it in court... In its research, its interpretation, and its implications, Only the Clothes on Her Back is unspeakably significant.
Edwards's new study... reveal[s] the national scope of the ephemeral post-Revolutionary localized political culture that offered protection to the propertyless. But it does a great deal more: it illuminates a hidden history of female economic power grounded in the ownership of textiles... Edwards makes it clear that the legal principles that governed the textile market were highly regulated, widely understood, and enforced by courts throughout the republic without open acknowledgment.
This book is helpful in drawing our attention to the perhaps usually invisible legal principles behind the ownership of these objects.
Notă biografică
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.