The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850 by Benjamin, Jody
The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850 by Benjamin, Jody

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850

The Texture of Change examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa--from Saint Louis, Senegal,...
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Author: Jody Benjamin
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The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850 by Benjamin, Jody

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850

$603.40
The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850 by Benjamin, Jody

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850

$603.40
Author: Jody Benjamin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Texture of Change examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa--from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone--through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool, linen, and silk cloths constituted major trade items that linked African producers and consumers to exchange networks that were both regional and global. While much of the historiography of commerce in Africa in the eighteenth century has focused on the Atlantic slave trade and its impact, this study follows the global cloth trade to account for the broad extent and multiple modes of western Africa's engagement with Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Jody Benjamin analyzes a range of archival, visual, oral, and material sources drawn from three continents to illuminate entanglements between local textile industries and global commerce and between the politics of Islamic reform and encroaching European colonial power. The study highlights the roles of a diverse range of historical actors mentioned only glancingly in core-periphery or Atlantic-centered framings: women indigo dyers, maroon cotton farmers, petty traveling merchants, caravan guides, and African Diaspora settlers. It argues that their combined choices within a set of ecological, political, and economic constraints structured networks connecting the Atlantic and Indian Ocean perimeters.

Author: Jody Benjamin
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780821425466

About the Author
Jody Benjamin is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. His research and teaching interests include West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Guinea), textiles, dress, fashion history, African Atlantic migration, diaspora, and intellectual history.
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