A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Pasold Research Fund/Oxford University Press, 2006 - 302 pàgines
During the Enlightenment, in a society that was increasingly urbanised and mobile, footwear was an essential item of apparel. This book considers not only the practical but also the symbolic meaning of footwear in France and England during the period from the end of the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century.
 

Continguts

Stepping in Fashion and Footwear
1
Demand and Consumption
16
Innovation and Tradition
58
Shops and Shopping
90
Artisans and Guilds
130
Manufacturing and Subcontracting
161
Continental Competition
190
Towards Industrialization
221
Stepping out Conclusion
244
Glossary
248
Bibliography
251
Index
287
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Sobre l'autor (2006)

Giorgio Riello is Research Officer in Global History at the London School of Economics where he is co-ordinating a research project entitled 'A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1800'. He has published on fashion, material culture and product innovation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is currently editing with Peter McNeil a collection of essays entitled Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (Oxford: Berg, forthcoming 2006).

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