The empire's new clothes
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Author
Publication
2009 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22695885M
- Internet Archiveempiresnewclothe0000ruan
- ISBN-139780300141559
- ISBN-100300141556
- LibraryThing8371761
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008049744
- OCLC Control Number262432357
- Better World Books9780300141559
Classifications
- DDC391.00947
- LCCGT1043 .R83 2009
- LCCGT1043.R83 2009
Description
"This book explores the impact of Westernization on Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and presents a wealth of photographs of ordinary Russians in all their finery. Christine Ruane draws on memoirs, mail-order catalogues, fashion magazines, and other period sources to demonstrate that Russia's adoption of western fashion had symbolic, political, and social ramifications and was inseparably linked to the development of capitalism, industrial production, and new forms of communication. This book shows how the fashion industry became a forum through which Russians debated and formed a new national identity."--Jacket.
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