| Publication |
Great Britain, Thames & Hudson, 2006.
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| Description |
48pWhite Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Describes the different types of clothes, well-known types of fabric, types of cloth worn in the past which are not very common now, with notes that discuss each period illustrated.
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| Contents |
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Crete
Ancient Greece
Ancient Babylon
Assyria and Persia
Ancient Rome
Byzantum
After the Romans
Into the Middle Ages
The flowering of the Middle Ages
The age of expansion
The age of invention
The time of the Black Death
The age of medieval romance
The end of the Middle Ages
Into the Renaissance
The age of exploration
Glories of the Renaissance
The time of the Conquistadors
The beginnings of modern science
A golden age
The end of the Renaissance
The colonial era
From puritan simplicity tp lordly luxury
The beginnings of democracy
Towards enlightenment
The age of elegance
The last flowering of the aristocrats
Era of the American and French revolutions
The age of the industrial revolution
The age of respectability
The golden age of the railways
The rise of modern commerce
The second Industrial Revolution
The Twentieth century dawns
The twenties and thirties
The thirties and forties
The fifties and sixties
The seventies and eighties
Modern times
The story of costume at a glance
Furthur reading
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| Standard Number |
0500513090 hb.
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