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Book SynopsisWomen, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors point out the richness of the region and the role of women in promoting new ideas of modernity. This will help the public to better know and understand the importance of women's sociability in building new nations and constructing new identities in South-Eastern Europe and beyond.
Trade Review"There is a great deal of variety among these contributions in terms of the types of sources they choose (paintings, memoirs, church cadasters, personal archives, clothing, etc.) and the specific scholarship they build upon. The most impressive overall achievement of the volume is to have brought to light archival troves in so many places and languages, reminding us about both the difficulty of doing archival comparative work on the Balkans and the unexplored richness of these sources." - Maria Bucur, Indiana University, UK, in: European History Quarterly 48(2)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu 1 Translating Imperial Practices, Knowledge, and Taste Across the Mediterranean. Giulio Ferrario and Ignatius Mouradgea d’Ohsson Giulia Calvi 2 French Residents and Ottoman Women in 18th-Century Levant Personal Relations, Social Control, and Cultural Interchange David Celetti 3 Women’s Fashion in Dalmatia at the End of the 18th Century Katarina Nina Simončič 4 A Dialogue of Sources: Greek Bourgeois Women and Material Culture in the Long 18th Century Artemis Yagou 5 “Curls and Forelocks”: Romanian Women’s Emancipation in Consumption and Fashion, 1780–1850 Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu 6 European Fashion, Consumption Patterns, and Intercommunal Relations in the 19th-Century Ottoman Istanbul Anastasia Falierou 7 Women in Merchant Families, Women in Trade in Mid-19th Century Romanian Countries Nicoleta Roman 8 Women Travellers as Consumers: Adoption of Modern Ideas and Practices in 19th-Century Southeast Europe Evguenia Davidova Index
