The study of the textile sector has always been central to economic history: from reconstructions of the dynamic growth in the medieval wool industry, to the rise of silk and light and mixed fabrics in the modern era, to the driving role of cotton in the industrialisation process. Although the dynamics of textile manufacturing are closely linked to the transformations of fashion, economic history has long neglected its role as a factor in economic change, treating it primarily as a kind of exogenous catalyst. This book makes a decisive contribution to the understanding of a fundamental transformation, the consequences of which are projected into contemporary society, but which matured in pre-industrial times: the advent of fashion.
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John Styles
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pp.93-118
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Julien Villain
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Daniel Muñoz Navarro
The virus of fashion. Democratization of luxury and new commercial strategies in early modern Valenciapp.201-219
Klas Nyberg
The production of international fashion in state-sponsored manufactures in Sweden-Finland, 1740-1810. Part Ipp.221-250
Aris Kafantogias
The catalyst of change. The clothing of the Viennese servants and their relation to fashion in the period 1760-1823pp.251-289
Peter Stabel
Unlikely followers of fashion? Dressing the poor in late medieval Brugespp.293-318
pp.319-340
Juan Vicente García Marsilla, Luis Almenar Fernández
Fashion, emulation and social classes in late medieval Valencia. Exploring textile consumption through probate inventoriespp.341-366
pp.367-387
Maryanne Kowaleski
Round Table comment. Fashion as an economic engine: continuity and changepp.395-401
Book Title
La moda come motore economico: innovazione di processo e prodotto, nuove strategie commerciali, comportamento dei consumatori / Fashion as an economic engine: process and product innovation, commercial strategies, consumer behavior
Editors
Giampiero Nigro
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
422
Publication Year
2022
Copyright Information
© 2022 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-564-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-565-3
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-566-0
Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
Series E-ISSN
2975-1195