The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1

Christopher Breward is Director of National Museums Scotland. He has published widely on the history of fashion and masculinity, clothing and city life and fashion's relationship with modernity. Notable publications include The Suit: Form, Function and Style (2016), and co-edited volumes London Fashion: from Street to Catwalk (2004) and Fashion's World Cities (2006). Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta. She publishes widely on consumer practice, material culture, gender and trade. Notable publications include Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures, c. 1500-1820 (2018) and the co-edited volume Object Lives & Global Histories in Northern North America. Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780-1980 (2021). Giorgio Riello is Chair of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Florence and Professor of Global History & Culture, University of Warwick. He publishes extensively on the history of fashion, textiles and trade between Europe and Asia. Among his books are: Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013); Luxury: A Rich History (with P. McNeil) (2016); and Back in Fashion: Western Fashion from the Middle Ages to the Present (2020).

• 1. Global history in the history of fashion, Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello; Part I. Multiple Origins of Fashion: 2. Towards a history of fashion without origins, BuYun Chen; 3. Fashion in the ancient world, Michael Scott; 4. Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300, Susan Whitfield; 5. Distinguishing oneself: the European medieval wardrobe, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli; 6. The material regulation of fashion: sumptuary laws in the early modern world, Giorgio Riello; Part II. Early Modern Global Entanglements: 7. Magnificence at the royal courts in the Islamic world, Suraiya Faroqhi; 8. Early modern fashion cities: Italy and Europe in a global context, Eugenia Paulicelli; 9. Fashioning possibilities: early modern global ties and entangled histories, Beverly Lemire; 10. Fashion beyond clothing: early modern visual culture of Eurasian dress, Peter McNeil; 11. Fashion and the maritime empires, Meha Priyadarshini; 12. Garments of servitude, fabrics of freedom: dress of enslaved and free diaspora African communities in the mid-Atlantic, c. 1700–1840, Steeve O. Buckridge; Part III. Many Worlds of Fashion: 13. 'Black cloth': status and identity in Islamic West Africa, c. 1500–1900, Colleen E. Kriger; 14. Fashion and moral concern in early modern Japan, Timon Screech; 15. Textiles and fashion in Southeast Asia, Ruth Barnes; 16. Fashion in Ming and Qing China, Rachel Silberstein; 17. Everyday fashion in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1600–1800, James Grehan; 18. Imperialism and fashion: South Asia, c. 1500–1800, Jagjeet Lally; 19. Fashion systems in the Indian Ocean World, from ancient times to c. 1850, Sarah Fee; 20. Fashion and first peoples in European settler societies, c. 1700–1850, Melissa Bellanta.

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