Oxford University Press Inc Book Only The Clothes On Her Back: Clothing And The Hidden History Of Power In The Nineteenth-Century United States

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This paperback by the Oxford University Press examines how clothing served as a lens into social and political power in the United States during the nineteenth century. It traces how garments, dress codes, and material culture reflected and reinforced hierarchies of class, gender, and authority, revealing connections between everyday attire and broader structures of power. With 456 pages of historical analysis, the book delves into archival sources and case studies to illustrate how clothing shaped, and was shaped by, legal and social norms of the era.