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In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between the mid-seventeenth and late-eighteenth centuries. As a result of European settlement and the construction of commercial networks stretching across much of the planet, men and women across a wide spectrum of ethnicities, social standings and occupations fashioned their garments from materials old and new, familiar and strange, and novel meanings came to be attached to different fabrics and modes of dress. The Material Atlantic illuminates crucial developments that characterised early modernity, from colonialism and slavery to economic innovation and new forms of social identity.

World history --- anno 1700-1799 --- Clothing and dress --- Fashion --- Textile industry --- Textile fabrics --- Material culture --- History --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Cloth --- Fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles --- Decorative arts --- Dry-goods --- Weaving --- Textile fibers --- Textiles industry --- Manufacturing industries --- Style in dress --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Undressing --- E-books --- Clothing and dress - America - History - 18th century --- Fashion - America - History - 18th century --- Textile industry - America - History - 18th century --- Textile fabrics - America - History - 18th century --- Material culture - America - History - 18th century