• Media type: E-Book; Still Image
  • Title: Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States
  • Contributor: Edwards, Laura F. [Author]
  • Published: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022
  • Published in: Oxford scholarship online
  • Extent: 1 online resource; illustrations (black and white, and colour)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197568576.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780197568606
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  • Keywords: USA > Frau > Schwarze > Armut > Kleidung > Eigentum > Rechtsstellung > Soziale Stellung > Geschichte 1771-1861
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  • Footnote: Also issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2021)
  • Description: 'Only the Clothes on Her Back' illuminates the ways in which women, men of colour, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access the legal system and to exercise political power.