Language of Dress
Subtitle: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica 1750-1890
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789766401436
Subjects: American history; Costume; Slavery & emancipation; Women's studies; Africa - General; History; Sociology; History: World; Jamaica; Anthropology - Cultural; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Clothing; Clothing and dress; Political aspects; Women, Black
First sentence: Many scholars do not read objects as they read books, as a means of comprehending the people and the times that created the objects.