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题名/责任者:

Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States / Laura F. Edwards.

出版发行项:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

ISBN:

9780197568576

ISBN:

0197568572

载体形态项:

xiii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

个人责任者:

Edwards, Laura F., author.

论题主题:

Property-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Textile fabrics-Social aspects-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Textile industry-Law and legislation-United States.

论题主题:

Women-Legal status, laws, etc.-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

African Americans-Legal status, laws, etc.-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Poor laws-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Law-Political aspects-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Equality before the law-United States-History-19th century.

中图法分类号:

D971.21

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

Only the Clothes on Her Back tells the history of law and commerce in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War through textiles and the legal principles associated with them. Those principles existed not in statutes or treatises, but in social and cultural practices, commonly known then, but now long forgotten, which made textiles - clothing, cloth, bedding, and accessories, such as shoes and hats - a unique form of property that people without rights could own and exchange. Textiles' value depended on law, which was what made them a secure form of property for marginalized people, who not only used these goods as currency, credit, and capital, but also as entre into the new republic's economy and governing institutions. Using original archival research, the first part of the book reconstructs the governing order in which textiles' legal principles flourished and follows the implications, recasting our understanding of production and exchange. The second part pieces together the rules that governed trade: trunks established ownership; witness testimony served instead of receipts; accounts were kept in diaries, if they were recorded at all. These practices might seem outside law, but they were not. The third part follows the legal downfall of textiles, showing how the practices associated with them became suspect as the federalism system elevated the possession of rights over other means of making property claims. By the mid-nineteenth century, textiles no longer had the legal power they once had, but most Americans had nothing to replace them.

摘要附注:

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access the legal system and to exercise political power.

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