The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1 is written by Christopher Breward and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108851487 (ISBN 10) and 9781108851480 (ISBN 13).

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 how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways depending on class, gender, and race, and despite geographical distance, fashion connected populations across the globe. Fashions flowered and were reseeded, through entanglements of empire, forced and voluntary migration, evolving racial systems, burgeoning sea travel and transcontinental systems.