Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Translating Imperial Practices, Knowledge, and Taste Across the Mediterranean: Giulio Ferrario and Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson -- Chapter 2 French Residents and Ottoman Women in 18th-Century Levant: Personal Relations, Social Control, and Cultural Interchange -- Chapter 3 Women's Fashion in Dalmatia at the End of the 18th Century -- Chapter 4 A Dialogue of Sources: Greek Bourgeois Women and Material Culture in the Long 18th Century -- Chapter 5 "Curls and Forelocks": Romanian Women's Emancipation in Consumption and Fashion, 1780-1850 -- Chapter 6 European Fashion, Consumption Patterns, and Intercommunal Relations in the 19th-Century Ottoman Istanbul -- Chapter 7 Women in Merchant Families, Women in Trade in Mid-19th Century Romanian Countries -- Chapter 8 Women Travellers as Consumers: Adoption of Modern Ideas and Practices in 19th-Century Southeast Europe -- Index.

A collection of stories and analysis about women, luxury, fashion and education in South-Eastern Europe in pre-modern and modern times.

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