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Zakim, Michael.

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Ready-made democracy: Dressing the Republic for commercial success, 1760-1860.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ready-made democracy: Dressing the Republic for commercial success, 1760-1860./
Author:	Zakim, Michael.
Description:	402 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2693.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-07A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9839034
ISBN:	9780591927788

Ready-made democracy: Dressing the Republic for commercial success, 1760-1860.
Zakim, Michael.

Ready-made democracy: Dressing the Republic for commercial success, 1760-1860. - 402 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2693.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1998.

This dissertation is about the interrelationship between capitalism and democracy in the United States during the first hundred years of American industrial revolution, from the War of Independence until the Civil War. Its narrative is structured around the history of men's clothing during this period. Tracing the development of a commodity such as clothing over the course of industrialization entails a myriad of social relations: between buyer and seller, wholesaler and retailer, employer and employee, urbanite and provincial, men and women, dandy and b'hoy. A simple event such as the birth of the business suit, thus, proves to have a far-reaching series of ramifications.

ISBN: 9780591927788Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Ready-made democracy: Dressing the Republic for commercial success, 1760-1860.
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520 $a This dissertation is about the interrelationship between capitalism and democracy in the United States during the first hundred years of American industrial revolution, from the War of Independence until the Civil War. Its narrative is structured around the history of men's clothing during this period. Tracing the development of a commodity such as clothing over the course of industrialization entails a myriad of social relations: between buyer and seller, wholesaler and retailer, employer and employee, urbanite and provincial, men and women, dandy and b'hoy. A simple event such as the birth of the business suit, thus, proves to have a far-reaching series of ramifications.
520 $a The chapters trace this story along several axes. Ideologically, the mass-produced men's suit became the nineteenth century's successor of the Revolutionary era's homespun as metaphor for American democracy. In the material sphere, a national ready-made clothing industry with New York City at its center was born. Meanwhile, custom tailoring proved to be no less of an industrial innovation than the ready-made.
520 $a In the social sphere, the history of men's clothing in these years included the rise of a retail shopping culture, the emergence of a new, white-collar market of consumers, and the appearance of the business suit. The industry also successfully mobilized the largest urban manufacturing force of the age without new divisions of labor or mechanical innovations. Rather, production was organized along extant social divisions. The novel "sweating" system, for instance, also rested on age-old practices. The appearance of the victimized seamstress as a favorite subject of bourgeois pity, however, did signal an innovation, not only in the waged status of women in the city but in the privatization of such political values as virtue.
520 $a Lastly, the proverbial "male renunciation" of fashion in the nineteenth century turns out to have rested on the unprecedented ubiquity of fashion and its influence among men, for the tailor and clothier proved integral in achieving the standardized civility necessary for democratic life.
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