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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States Edwards, Laura F. (Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty, Princeton University)
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Edwards, Laura F. (Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty, Princeton University)
Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
400 pages, 45 black and white halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 24, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9780197568576 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 456 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 165 × 36 mm · 778 g |