Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Laura F. Edwards examines clothing as a key to understanding power in the nineteenth-century United States. Looking beyond garments as objects of fashion, this history considers what people wore and owned as evidence of status, authority, inequality, and the social forces shaping American life.
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Only the Clothes on Her Back explores the relationship between clothing and power in the nineteenth-century United States.
Laura F. Edwards examines what garments could reveal about status, authority, inequality, and everyday life.
By focusing on clothing, the book brings a material and social perspective to American history.
This study shows how seemingly ordinary possessions can illuminate larger structures of power and change.
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