Category - History
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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade...
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Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$116.99$116.99 - $116.99Current price $116.99| /Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia and regional scholarship, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant history of changing dress practice...
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Surviving Desires: Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally rec...
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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. W...
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New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb tra...
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