This engaging volume tells the history of Western fashion, exploring how and why it has influence...

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created on...

In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Floren...

The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things', ranging from commodities to work...

This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and p...

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishm...

Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspect...

'Riello and McNeil's new collection of essays represents an immense and impressive project' - Cho...

Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that ...

The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things', ranging from commodities to work...

Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as 'networks' or 'flows' and usually in r...

Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integrati...