The politics of appearances [electronic resource] : representations of dress in revolutionary France / Richard Wrigley.
In the turbulent political and social landscape of Revolutionary France, dress played a major role in defining and displaying new identities. What people wore was, in fact, a vital symbol of their allegiances and beliefs. Drawing on a wide range of documentary and visual sources, this book offers a...
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations Introduction 1 Revolutionary Relics 2 Representing Authority: New Forms of Official Identity 3 Cockades: Badge Culture and its Discontents 4 Liberty Caps: From Roman Emblem to Radical Headgear 5 Sans-culottes: The Formation, Currency, and Representation of a Vestimentary Stereotype 6 Mistaken Identities: Disguise, Surveillance, and the Legibility of Appearances Coda.