Only the clothes on her back clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States / Laura F. Edwards.
| Author/creator | Edwards, Laura F. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xiii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Polly's yarn : legal principles -- Roger Taney's long underwear : federalism -- Mr. Robinson's fabrics : merchants -- Rebecca Coles' factory : manufacturers -- The prison society's problem : currency -- Jane Cooley's loom : Capital -- Margaret Ten Eyck's accounts : credit -- Eliza Cauchois's shift : exchange -- Sarah Allingham's sheet : enforcement -- Catherine Brennan's Haul : criminality -- Charles Lohman's dresses : suppression -- Mrs. Harris's marriage : erasure. conclusion -- Mrs. Lincoln's old clothes : just material. |
| Abstract | "Americans conducted their lives with the presumption that everyone could make legal claims to textiles. This chapter explains that situation, exploring the customary practices that, by the time of the American Revolution, had cohered into legal principles, which allowed people without rights-even enslaved people and married women-to make claims to textiles in law, something they could not do with other forms of property"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-415) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023033263 |
| ISBN | 9780197568576 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780197760406 (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |