An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History

An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History

Author: Karl J. Schmidt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1317476816

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This historical atlas is devoted primarily to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while also covering Napal, Bhutan and Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The maps are accompanied by text which illuminates recent political, economic, social and cultural developments.


American Quilts

American Quilts

Author: Robert Shaw

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781402747731

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This photographed book covers the historical panorama of quiltmaking in the United States, from the quintessential patterns to their cultural significance.--[Book jacket.].


The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

Author: Kate Haulman

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0807869295

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In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux. In the see-and-be-seen port cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, fashion, a form of power and distinction, was conceptually feminized yet pursued by both men and women across class ranks. Haulman shows that elite men and women in these cities relied on fashion to present their status but also attempted to undercut its ability to do so for others. Disdain for others' fashionability was a means of safeguarding social position in cities where the modes of dress were particularly fluid and a way to maintain gender hierarchy in a world in which women's power as consumers was expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order.


The Collecting of Antiques

The Collecting of Antiques

Author: Esther Singleton

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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Only articles of aesthetic appeal are considered in this volume, which is addressed to discriminating collectors, who sometimes like to read about what they already know, and to beginner-collectors, who have just started on their quest for artistic treasures. Consequently, this book treats of such types of china, silver, glass, furniture, metal-work, and textiles as belong to the Decorative Arts, while such types as belong to the Industries of a nation are not represented. This will explain the omission of Sandwich Glass and Hooked Rugs, which, although enjoying present popularity with some collectors of Americiana, cannnot possibly be classed with beautiful objects de luxe able to pass all the canons of elegant and fastidious taste.-pg. vii.