ID - 46199340 TI - The right to dress : sumptuary laws in a global perspective, c. 1200-1800 AU - Riello, Giorgio AU - Rublack, Ulinka PY - 2019 SN - 9781108475914 9781108469272 1108475914 1108469272 9781108567541 1108567541 1108636101 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History of the law KW - World history KW - History of civilization KW - anno 1200-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Luxury KW - Sumptuary laws KW - Clothing and dress KW - Economics KW - Wealth KW - Cost and standard of living KW - Leisure class KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46199340 AB - This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'. ER -