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The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas

Author(s):

Roces, Mina; Edwards, Louise

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Binding:

Softcover

Volume Condition:

As New

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

–

Edition:

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Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Sussex Academic Press

Publication Year:

2010

Publication Place:

Eastbourne, UK

ISBN:

9781845193997

Book ID:

006499

Catalogue(s):

Fashion, Costume, Dress ◇ History – The Americas

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x, 276pp, central photographic plate section, in-text photographs; mainly black and white. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 12mo.Examines how the politics of dress has been incorporated in constructions of nationhood in both Asia and the Americas, and reveals how politicians and political regimes manipulate sumptuary practices in order to create national identities, to legitimise hierarchies of power or to build personal political identities.

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