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American clothes, 1690 to 1830. . - Books About Antiques - 'What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America' - book review As befits Colonial Williamsburg, which has everything, the present large book about its costume collection covers all bases and many baselines. It is ......(Continue Reading) Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. . - Reviews - book review Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. By Carolyn Dean (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv plus ......(Continue Reading)Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa. - book review Judith Perani and Norma H. Wolff Berg Publishers, Oxford and New York 1999. North American distributor: NYU Press. 217 pp., 19 b/w illustrations. $55 hardcover, $19.50 softcover. The series Dre...(Continue Reading)Britain's new friend struts about in fancy dress and throws dollars to the poor. But will the Libyans still put up with him? - Profile: Colonel Gaddafi Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Britain's new friend, basked in the eulogies from the Foreign Office minister Mike O'Brien, who called at his tent recently....(Continue Reading)Killer Khilats, Part 2: Imperial Collecting of Poison Dress Legends in India Abstract This article presents the English language collecting histories of seven legends of death by Poison Dress that were recorded in early modern ......(Continue Reading)
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