The Texture of Change

The Texture of Change

Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850

Benjamin, Jody

Ohio University Press

11/2024

268

Dura

Inglês

9780821425466

15 a 20 dias

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List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Chapter 1 Twelve Measures of New Cloth and a Magnificent Bubu: Bamanan Kaarta between Sahel and Sea


Chapter 2 Cotton Cloth in Western Africa: Barafulas, Bafetas, and Piezas de India


Chapter 3 Centering the Sahel in the Early Eighteenth Century: Indigo Dyers, Precarity, and the Pull of the Faleme River Valley, 1730-1750


Chapter 4 The Politics of Dress at Saint-Louis during an Age of Islamic Revolution, 1785-1815


Chapter 5 Merchants, Maroons, Mahdis, and Migrants on the Upper Guinea Coast, 1795-1825


Chapter 6 Textures of a Changing Era: Old Redcoats, Groundnuts, and Afro-Atlantic Missionaries, 1825-1850


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index
Dress/fashion history; Western Africa; Gambia; Mali; Guinea; material culture; African Atlantic History; Black Atlantic; social history; global capitalism; 18th/19th century; cotton; indigo; Senegal; cloth; textile; trade; commerce