The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
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AlbakiReads Editorial Textiles as a lens on West African history
Textiles as a lens on West African history
Covering western Africa from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone, this history uses cloth—its production, trade, purchase, and wear—to trace change between 1700 and 1850. Jody Benjamin places indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool, linen, and silk within regional and worldwide exchange networks, widening the frame beyond accounts centered chiefly on the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival, visual, oral, and material evidence from three continents, the book connects local textile economies with Islamic reform, expanding European colonial power, and ecological and economic constraints. Women indigo dyers, maroon cotton farmers, itinerant merchants, caravan guides, and African Diaspora settlers emerge as participants whose decisions shaped links across Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers of West African and Atlantic-world history
- Students of textile, dress, and material-culture studies
- Those interested in global trade and African economic networks
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Textile commerceDress and self-fashioningWest African historyGlobal exchange networksColonial power and Islamic reform
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Book Overview The Texture of Change examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa--from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra ...
The Texture of Change examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa--from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone--through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool, linen, and silk cloths constituted major trade items that linked African producers and consumers to exchange networks that were both regional and global. While much of the historiography of commerce in Africa in the eighteenth century has focused on the Atlantic slave trade and its impact, this study follows the global cloth trade to account for the broad extent and multiple modes of western Africa's engagement with Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Jody Benjamin analyzes a range of archival, visual, oral, and material sources drawn from three continents to illuminate entanglements between local textile industries and global commerce and between the politics of Islamic reform and encroaching European colonial power. The study highlights the roles of a diverse range of historical actors mentioned only glancingly in core-periphery or Atlantic-centered framings: women indigo dyers, maroon cotton farmers, petty traveling merchants, caravan guides, and African Diaspora settlers. It argues that their combined choices within a set of ecological, political, and economic constraints structured networks connecting the Atlantic and Indian Ocean perimeters.
Jody Benjamin analyzes a range of archival, visual, oral, and material sources drawn from three continents to illuminate entanglements between local textile industries and global commerce and between the politics of Islamic reform and encroaching European colonial power. The study highlights the roles of a diverse range of historical actors mentioned only glancingly in core-periphery or Atlantic-centered framings: women indigo dyers, maroon cotton farmers, petty traveling merchants, caravan guides, and African Diaspora settlers. It argues that their combined choices within a set of ecological, political, and economic constraints structured networks connecting the Atlantic and Indian Ocean perimeters.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 253 | Language: English | Publisher: OHIO UNIV PR | ISBN: 0821425463
FormatHardcover
Pages253
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0821425463
EAN9780821425466
PublisherOHIO UNIV PR
Publication Date2024-11-19
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.27 Pounds
Length9.1 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height1.0 Inches
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