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Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers  Cover Image Book Book

Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers / edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil.

Riello, Giorgio. (Added Author). McNeil, Peter, 1966- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781845204433 (Cloth)
  • ISBN: 1845204433 (Cloth)
  • Physical Description: 439 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: English ed.
  • Publisher: Oxford, UK : Berg, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A long walk: shoes, people and places / Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil -- Beneath their shining feet: shoes and sandals in classical Greece / Sue Blundell -- Sumptuous shoes: making and wearing in medieval Italy / Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli -- Courtly lady or courtesan? the Venetian chopine in the Renaissance / Andrea Vianello -- Walking the streets of London and Paris in the Enlightenment / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello -- War Wellingtons: military footwear in the Age of Empire / Alison Matthews David -- The perils of choice: women's footwear in nineteenth-century America / Nancy Rexford -- Purity, pollution and place in traditional Japanese footwear / Martha Chaiklin -- Interrogating Africa's past: footwear amongst the Yoruba / Tunde M. Akinwumi -- A dream of butterflies? shoes in Chinese culture / Paola Zamperini -- Fashioning masculinity: men's footwear and modernity / Christopher Breward -- A delicate balance: women, power and high heels / Elizabeth Semmelhack -- Shoes and the erotic imagination / Valerie Steele -- Sex and sin: the magic of red shoes / Hilary Davidson -- Beyond the rainbow: queer shoes / Clare Lomas, Peter McNeil and Sally Gray -- Made in Italy: Ferragamo and twentieth-century fashion / Stefania Ricci -- Style through design: form and function / Giovanni Luigi Fontana -- Sole representation: shoe imagery and twentieth-century art / Julia Pine -- Limousines for the feet: the rhetoric of trainers / Alison Gill -- The male Cinderella: shoes, genius and fantasy / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello.
Subject: Shoes > History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Community College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Downtown Library GT 2130 S468 2006 (Text) 33109009268301 Stacks Volume hold Available -


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