Richard Ford
Author
Language
English
Description
Richard T. Ford is George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford. He has published in numerous legal journals including the Harvard Law Review and Stanford Law Review. His is co-author of Local Government Law and The Legal Geographies Reader
What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A revelatory exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants who dressed like princes and butchers' wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies...