The study of the textile sector has always been central to economic history: from reconstructions of the dynamic growth in the medieval wool industry, to the ri

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.

Charts the rise of consumerism and the new cosmopolitan material cultures that took shape across the globe from 1500 to 1820.

A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.

Why were beards suddenly stylish in Europe after 1500? Why did the ruff come in and out of use in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? Why did men fro