Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe.
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Intro -- Contents Contents -- Introduction -- "The Antipathy between French and Spaniards": Dress, Gender, and Identity in the Court Society of Early Modern Naples, 1501-1799 -- "a sutte of black which will always be of use to you": Expressions of Difference and Similarity in the Clothing Choices of the Scottish Male Elite Travelling in Europe, 1550-1750 -- "He knows them by their dress": Dress and Otherness in Early Modern Spain -- Jewish Travelers in Early Modern Italy: Visible and Invisible Resistance to the Jewish Badge -- From Noble Dress to Jewish Attire: Jewish Appearances in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire -- The Emergence of a Polish National Dress and Its Perception -- Shawls and Sable Furs: How to Be a Boyar under the Phanariot Regime (1710-1821) -- Imperial Fashions: Cashmere Shawls between Istanbul, Paris, and Milan (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries) -- Everything in its Right Place? -- List of Contributors.