THE FASHION HISTORY READER Edited by Giorgio Riello & Peter McNeil

Global Perspectives

Card Cover Clean Used Condition see photo 2 small pen marks 566 Pages First Edition 2010

'Riello and McNeil's new collection of essays represents an immense and impressive project' – Choice 'Now, the key contributions from nearly every expert in the field are assembled in one fascinating book. This kaleidoscopic and informative volume ranges impressively across conventional boundaries of chronology, geography, and discipline.' – Glenn Adamson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Indispensable for anyone interested in fashion. History has never been more alive than in the pages of this Reader.' – Patrizia Calefato, University of Bari, Italy The Fashion History Reader is an innovative work providing a broad introduction to complex literature in the fields of fashion studies, dress, fashion history. 23 chapters and over 40 shorter ‘Snapshot’ texts cover a wide range of topics and approaches within the history of fashion, ranging from object based studies to theory driven analyses. The book is divided into 6 parts, surveying some of the key themes in the history of fashion. Themes also move in and across time, providing a chronology to enable student learning:

1 to 3 cover the 15th to the 18th century

4 & 5 cover the 19th century to the contemporary (with particular attention given to non-European countries)

6 provides a survey of the global setting and current globalized nature of fashion.

Introduction contextualizes debates for students, synthesising past history bringing them up-to-date through a discussion of globalization. SectionS also includes short, accessible introduction placing each chapter within wider, thematic treatment of fashion and its history, Annotated Guide to Further Reading.

The Fashion History Reader was awarded a prize for 'Best Edited Book' at the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand: Art Historians of Australasia, Annual General Meeting, December 2011.