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Survey of Historic Costume, 5th Edition

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Survey of Historic Costume, 5th Edition

Keith Eubank and Phyllis G. Tortora
  • ©2009
  • 640 Pages
  • Hardcover, 8.5 x 11
  • 978-1-56367-806-6
$119.50
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• Over 500 four-color photographs and illustrations
• Updated text to 2008 Additional influences from one period or civilization to another, including influences from other cultures
• Index – updated and organized to be utilized as glossary with terms defined and page numbers printed in boldface
• Instructor’s Guide provides sources for visuals, websites, teaching strategies and evaluation techniques
• PowerPoint Presentation contains interactive visual presentation with links to Internet
  • PROFESSOR REVIEWS

"Love the new book! Just lovely. I'm excited to use it this fall. I think the cover is really appealing"

— Kay Jay
    Director, Historical Textiles and Apparel Collection The School of
    Human Ecology College of Natural Sciences
    The University of Texas at Austin
• The Ancient Middle East 3500–600 B.C.
• Crete and Greece c. 2900–300 B.C.
• Etruria and Rome c. 800 B.C.–A.D. 400
• The Early Middle Ages c. 300–1300
• The Late Middle Ages c. 1300–1500
• The Italian Renaissance c. 1400–1600
• The Northern Renaissance c. 1500–1600
• The Seventeenth Century 1600–1700
• The Eighteenth Century 1700–1800
• The Directoire Period and the Empire Period 1790–1820
• The Romantic Period 1820–1850
• The Crinoline Period 1850–1869
• The Bustle Period and Nineties 1870–1900
• The Edwardian Period and World War I 1900–1920
• The Twenties, Thirties, and World War II 1920–1947
• The New Look and Beyond 1947–1960
• The Sixties and Seventies: Style Tribes Emerge 1960–1980
• The Eighties and Nineties: Affluence and Information
• The 21st Century: The New Millennium

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Keith Eubank is a Professor Emeritus of history at Queens College, CUNY. He had previously been the chairman of the History Department and was also part of the doctoral faculty in History at CUNY. Eubank maintains scholarly affiliations with the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association.
Phyllis G. Tortora is a Professor Emerita at Queens College, where she was Department Chair for 17 years, teaching historic costume and furnishings, and textiles. She has also served as a consultant to the Historic Costume Collection of the Huntington Historical Society. Her professional memberships include the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) and the Costume Society of America (CSA). She has been awarded Fellow Membership in ITAA.

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