{"product_id":"9781350286726","title":"Fashion at the Frontier Photography, Time, and Colonial Modernity on Brazil's Madeira-Mamoré Railroad","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFashion: Visual \u0026amp; Material Interconnections\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eFashion at the Frontier\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePhotography, Time, and Colonial Modernity on Brazil's Madeira-Mamoré Railroad\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eElizabeth Kutesko | Rebecca Arnold\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesign \/ Fashion \u0026amp; Accessories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevisiting Dana Bertran Merrill's remarkable archive, this innovative interrogation of photographs of the anonymous workforce who built the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadeira-Mamoré \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003erailroad reveals how fashion inhabited a landscape defined by extractive capitalism, transnational migration, and uneven networks of power. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing fashion studies into conversation with photography and the histories of labor and colonialism, it foregrounds the presence of migrant labourers from across the globe, Caribbean washerwomen, North American contractors, Brazilian engineers and sanitarians, and Indigenous communities. The result is a vivid account of how the camera both reinforced and unsettled racialised systems of classification and control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFashion at the Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh perspectives on fashion, time and archival silence, opening up new ways of understanding dress within the wider histories of Latin America and global modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Kutesko\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Fashion Histories and Theories at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and is the author of \u003ci\u003eFashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2018).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350286726\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e280\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333848006796,"sku":"9781350286726","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_f50c4996-0703-4282-8ac5-44a14979d360.jpg?v=1783616781","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350286726","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}