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Uniforms and Nonuniforms
Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society. In the first in-depth study to analyze the communicative character of uniforms and other types of clothing, Nathan Joseph examines how clothing functions in a variety of social contexts to enforce norms, maintain institutional power, identify group membership, and express or suppress individuality.
Uniform
"Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World examines the role uniform plays in public life and private experience. This volume explores the social, political, economic, and cultural significance of various kinds of uniforms to consider how they embody gender, class, sexuality, race, nationality, and belief. From the pageantry of uniformed citizens to the rationalizing of time and labour, this category of dress has enabled distinct forms of social organization, sometimes repressive, sometimes utopian. With thematic sections on the social meaning of uniform in the military, in institutions, and political movements, its use in fashion, in the workplace, and at leisure, a series of cas...
Uniform
The book, conceptualized and promoted by Pitti Immagine, contains a striking selection of images and texts with different, detailed and complementary approaches to the theme by scholars, writers and journalists.
Civilian uniforms as symbolic communication
This volume contains the papers of an international and interdisciplinary conference, the first such conference dedicated to the cultural history of civilian uniforms. Scholars from six different nations and from such diverse fields as history, art history, textile history, social psychology, ethnology of European and non-European countries, cultural studies, and gender studies present the results of their research. Investigating different aspects of civilian uniforms from the 18th century to the present, they reveal how this category of dress served as a complex carrier of meaning and a central medium of symbolic communication. This publication reflects a broad variety of research methods, ...
Military Uniforms Visual Encyclopedia
"More than 650 colour illustrations"--Cover.
Uniforms Exposed
Uniforms are perhaps the most widely worn garments in the world. Craik looks at the meaning of uniforms as well as how they have influenced fashion, and shows the centrality of uniforms to cultural politics. She draws on historical and contemporary examples of uniforms across different cultures.
Uniforms of World War II
See hundreds of iconic military uniforms, insignias, and badges worn by armies, navies, and air forces all over the world during the Second World War.
British Army Uniform and the First World War
Jane Tynan offers new perspectives on the cultural history of the First World War by examining the clothing worn by British combatants on the western front. Khaki emerges as a significant part of war experience, which embodied gender, social class and ethnicity, impacted the tailoring trade and became a touchstone for pacifist resistance.
