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  • Cotton

    The Fabric that Made the Modern World

    by Giorgio Riello ...
    Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Luxury

    A Rich History

    by Peter McNeil, Giorgio Riello ...
    We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More than ever, luxury is a pervasive presence in the cultural and economic life of the West - and ... Read more

    $17.89 CAD

  • Trading at the Edge of Empires

    Francesco Carletti's World, c. 1600

    Edited by Brian Brege, Paula Findlen, Luca Molà, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series Book 9 - I Tatti Research Series
    In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Florentine Francesco Carletti became the first European merchant to leave an account of travel on existing commercial routes. A repentant ex-slave trader and smuggler turned dealer in Chinese goods, Carletti travelled “at the edge of empires,” providing a unique perspective on the promise and peril of a ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • The Right to Dress

    Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800

    Edited by Giorgio Riello, Ulinka Rublack ...
    This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • A Revolution in Colour

    Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800

    Edited by Prof. Giorgio Riello, Dr Maria Hayward, Ulinka Rublack ...
    This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet their story has been side-lined by a focus on visual experiences shaped by the high arts. Meanwhile, theatrical productions and period films still abound with broad assumptions about the growing dominance of black clothing for elites during ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Global Economic History

    Edited by Professor Tirthankar Roy, Prof. Giorgio Riello ...
    Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to the 20th centuries. From the environment to The Great Divergence, finance, consumption, trade, industrialisation, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1

    From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Fashion
    Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on ... Read more

    $188.79 CAD

  • The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2

    From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Fashion
    Volume II surveys the history of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day. Covering the period beginning with mass industry and ending with calls for sustainability, this volume challenges the meaning of modernity and modernism from a global perspective and reflects on important scholarship that has changed our understanding of the relationship between fashion and colonialism. ... Read more

    $173.59 CAD

  • Dressing Global Bodies

    The Political Power of Dress in World History

    Edited by Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one’s identity.This collection of essays explores how garments reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal inclinations, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation

    Edited by Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello ...
    The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism.However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation

    Edited by Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello ...
    The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism.However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Global Design History

    Edited by Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello, Sarah Teasley ...
    Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as ‘networks’ or ‘flows’ and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory.Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global scale. They place these ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD