The material Atlantic : clothing, commerce, and colonization in the Atlantic world, 1650-1800 / / Robert S. DuPlessis.

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DuPlessis, Robert S., author.

The material Atlantic : clothing, commerce, and colonization in the Atlantic world, 1650-1800 / / Robert S. DuPlessis.

Cambridge, United Kingdon : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

xvii, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Fashioning the Atlantic world -- Dress regimes at the dawn of the shared Atlantic -- Acquiring imported textiles and dress -- Redressing the indigenous Americas -- Dress under constraint -- Dressing free settlers in the "torrid zone" -- Free settler dress in temperate zones -- Atlantic dress regimes : fashions and meanings, implications and ironies.

Clothing and dress -- America -- History -- 18th century.

Fashion -- America -- History -- 18th century.

Textile industry -- America -- History -- 18th century.

Textile fabrics -- America -- History -- 18th century.

Material culture -- America -- History -- 18th century.

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