Contacts
Room: H0.14
Tel: +44 (0) 24 76522163
Fax: +44 (0) 24 76523437
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Address
Department of History
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
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Academic Profile
- Professor, Warwick University, 2011-present
- Associate Professor, Warwick University, 2009-2011
- Assistant Professor, Warwick University, 2007-2008
- Research Officer, London School of Economics, 2004-2006
- Tutor, Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art, 2003-2004
- Ph.D in History, University College London (2002)
- Laurea in Business Economics, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (1998)
Professional Membership
UG and PG Modules Taught
PhD Superivision in Global History; history of Material Culture and Textiles; History of Trade and Manufacturing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Office Hours
I will be on study leave during the academic year 2011-12
Interview and Podcasts
Interview with Prof Jack Goldstone (George Washington University) on 'The West and the Rest'
Interview with Profs. Dennis Flynn (University of the Pacific) and Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College) on'Divergence, Silver and the Early Modern World Economy'
Venice Summer School, 2009: Introduction to Material Culture
Venice Summer School 2009: What is Global History?
Interview with Dr Donal Cooper (University of Warwick) - Material Culture in the Venetian Archives
Interview with Dr Marta Ajmar (V&A Museum) - The Material Culture of the Italian Renaissance
Interview with Dr Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick) - Porcelains in China and Europe
History of Shoes Warwick I-Cast
Selected Publications
Books
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(eds.) Global Design History (Basingstoke: Routledge, 2011), hb & pb 226pp., 35 B/W illustrations (with Glenn Adamson and Sarah Teasley)
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(eds.) Moda: Storia e Storie (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2010), pb 249pp., 25 B/W illustrations. (with M. G. Muzzarelli and E. Tosi Brandi)
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A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 302pp., 94 b/w and 32 colour illustrations. Reviews in Journal of Design History Jan 2007 ; Business History Review Spring 2007; Enterprise & Society May 2007; Business History May 2007; Economic History Review May 2007; Journal of British Studies July 2007; Textile History Nov. 2007; Journal of Interdisciplinary History Winter 2008.
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Articles
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'The art and science of walking: mobility, gender and footwear in the long eighteenth century', Fashion Theory, 9/2 (2005), pp. 175-204 (with P. McNeil) translated into Russian as ‘Peshie progulki kak nauka i iskusstvo: gender, prostranstvo i modnoe telo v "dolgom vosemnadzatom veke’, Teoria Mody, 1/2 (2007), pp. 127-162; translated into German as ‘Kunst und Wissenschaft des Gehens: Geschlecht, Raum und Eleganter Körper im Verlängerten 18. Jahrhundert’, in Anna-Brigitte Schlittler and Katharina Tietze (eds.), Kleid und Raum (Zürich, 2009), pp. 14-30.
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‘Dal Consumo di Massa alla Produzione in Serie: Il Caso del Calzaturiero Inglese in Età Moderna’ [‘From Mass Consumption to Mass Production: The Case of the Boot and Shoe Sector in Early Modern England’], Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 36 (2002), pp. 281-304.
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‘La Società del Consumo nell’Inghilterra del Settecento: Trent’anni di Studi’ [‘The Consumer Society of Eighteenth-Century Britain: Thirty Years of Research’], Ricerche di Storia Sociale e Religiosa, 55 (1999), pp. 41-66.
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Chapters in Books
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‘From India to the World: Cotton and Fashionability’, in Frank Trentmann (ed.), Consumption in History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012), pp. 145-170 (with Prasannan Parthasarathi)
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‘La storia che verrà: verso una storia globale della moda’ [And History will Come: Towards a Global History of Fashion] and ‘L’oggetto di moda: tre approcci per la storia della moda’ [‘Fashion Objects: Three Approaches to the Study of the History of Fashion’], in Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Giorgio Riello and Elisa Tosi Brandi (eds.), Moda: Storia e Storie (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2010), pp. 30-43 and 131-143.
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'The Italian Textile Industry: Technology, Labour and Innovation, 1650-2000', in Lex Heerma van Voss , Els Hiemstra-Kuperus and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers (Aldeshot: Ashgate, 2010) (with G.L. Fontana and W. Panciera), pp. 275-304.
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‘Storia della scarpa in Italia dal Settecento a oggi’ [The Production of Footwear in Italy from the Eighteenth Century to the Present], in Maria Canella and Elena Puccinelli (eds.) La misura dell'eleganza. Storia della calzoleria artigianale a Milano tra XIX e XX secolo (Milan:Lucini Libri, 2009), pp. 55-140. (with G. L. Fontana)
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- 'Things that Shape History: Material Culture and Historical Narratives', in Karen Harvey (ed.), History and Material Culture (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 24-47; re-printed in A.F. Garçon, A. Cardoso de Matos, and G. L. Fontana (eds.), Techniques, patrimoine, territoires de l'industrie: quel enseignement? (Lisbon: Ediçoes Colibri, 2010), pp. 163-190.
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‘Walking the Streets of London and Paris: Shoes in the Enlightenment’, in Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil (eds.), Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (Oxford and
New York: Berg, 2006) (with P. McNeil).
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‘Counting Sheep: A Global View on Wool, 1800-
2000’, in Giovanni Luigi Fontana and Gérard Gayot (eds.), Wool: Products and Markets, 13th-20th century (Padua: CLEUP, 2004), pp. 113-136.
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‘Dopo le Corporazioni: Protezione, Innovazione e Competizione Internazionale nel Settore Calzaturiero Londinese nel Primo Ottocento’ [After the Guilds: Protection, Innovation and International Competition in the London Footwear Sector in the Early Nineteenth Century’, in Paola Massa and Angelo Moioli (eds.), Dalla Corporazione al Mutuo Soccorso. Organizzazione e Tutela del Lavoro tra XVI e XX Secolo (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2004), pp. 425-444.
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'La Camera di Commercio Italiana per il Regno Unito’ [‘The Italian Chamber of Commerce in the UK’], in Emilio Franzina (ed.), Profili di Camere di Commercio Italiane all’Estero (Milan: Rubettino, 2001), pp. 65-83.
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Working Papers
Other Publications
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‘Shopping and Walking: Buying Shoes in Eighteenth-century London’, Footnotes: The Quarterly Magazine of the Bata Shoe Museum (Toronto), Winter issue (2001), p. 7.
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‘The Crisis of the London Boot and Shoe Trade and Parisian Fashion, 1815-
50’, in The Economic History Society Annual Conference Programme (Bristol: EHS, 2000), pp. 31-38.
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Research
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My fields of expertise are located within the long chronologies and geographical spaces covered by Global History. My particular interests are directed towards issues of ‘material life and economic development’ and the relationship between consumption and production. My current research focuses on changes in consumer demand and their impact on the spheres of production and material culture, with specific reference to textiles and clothing. My areas of interest are:
Global History
Since 2004 I have been researching for a book entitled Global Cotton: How An Asian Fabric Made Europe Rich, 1200-1800 that analyses the role played by cotton textiles in the re-shaping of global trade and production during the long period from 1300 to the mechanisation of the industry in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. I have edited with Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College) a volume entitled The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1250-1850 (OUP 2009) and with Tirthankar Roy (LSE) How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850 (Brill 2009). Both volumes are the result of the research activities that I undertook at the Global Economic History Network (GEHN) at the London School of Economics. As part of the activities of the Warwick Global History and Culture Centre, in 2009 I co-organised with Luca Mola' a Summer School on The Global Arts held at Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, the University of Warwick's base in Venice.
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History of Fashion and Design
Together with Professor Peter McNeil of the University of Technology, Sydney, I have edited a volume entitled Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (Berg 2006) tracing the history of one item of clothing from ancient times to the present. I am also the author of a book on the wearing and production of footwear in the eighteenth century entitled A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century (OUP 2006). I have also been involved in the recent debates over future directions in Fashion Studies and History of Design. I have taught both subjects in the last few years. In April 2009 I co-hosted (together with Professor Stella Bruzzi of the Film Studies Department) and workshop on The Future of Fashion Studies.
History of Material Culture and Material Life
I am currently developing research and teaching in the broad area of material culture. I am particularly interested in the way objects can be used in historians’ research and the role of material things in everyday life during the early modern period. I have written on domestic textiles in medieval and early modern Europe and Italian food in eighteenth-century Britain. In 2005 I organised a conference on ‘The Georgian Interior’ at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, considering the relationship between history of architecture and design, material culture and social and cultural history. A selection of papers from the conference appeared a special issue of the Journal of Design History in 2007. In August 2009 I convened with Anne Gerritsen a session on Global Commodities: The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections at the Utretch World Economic History Congress. This session was part of the research and network activities that Anne Gerritsen and I have developed as part of the project on Global Material Culture financed by the University of Warwick.
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