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• (from table of contents) Introduction
• Pocket origins: "carried close and secret"
• Pocket proliferation: housing "the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen"
• Pocket attitudes: "but what do your hands do in your pocket?"
• Pocket sexism: "why we oppose pockets for women"
• Pocket inventories: "not a penny was there in it"
• Pocket play: designing for "doubly decorative value"
• Pocket utopias: dreaming of a pocketless world.

"A social and design history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today, that uncovers what pockets reveal about us, our place in society, and how we move through the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Why do men's clothes have so many pockets and women's so few? Why are the pockets on women's clothes too small to be practical-- if they open at all? Carlson examines issues of gender politics, security, sexuality, power and privilege-- all tucked inside our pockets. This takes a look at the social- and design-history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today. Will we still want pockets in the future when our clothes contain "smart" textiles that incorporate our IDs and credit cards? -- adapted from jacket

• Note from Smith College / Sarah Willie-LeBreton
• Foreword / Diane von Furstenberg
• Introduction / Vanessa Friedman
• Chapter 1. Home
• Chapter 2. Public dress
• Chapter 3. Accessories
• Chapter 4. Rites of passage
• Chapter 5. Service
• Chapter 6. Suits
• Chapter 7. Pushing the boundaries.

"Real Clothes, Real Lives highlights over 300 garments and accessories from the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection. This unique survey honors countless lives, tracing through the lens of dress how women's roles have changed over the decades. Each piece holds colorful stories about the woman who wore it, the one who made or bought it, and her context in place and time. Whether homemade or ready-made, many of the garments are modest and inexpensive. Some are one-of-a-kind pieces; others are examples of clever making-do, which seems particularly relevant today; and most reflect the popular styles of their era. Among the many extraordinary examples are a rare World War I uniform worn by an American woman working behind enemy lines and a 1970s go-go dancer's costume."--Publisher's website.

• Introduction: The city that dreams
• A crypt of the supernatural
• Feminine power and New Orleans' voodoo queen
• America's most haunted city
• Drinking blood in the Big Easy
• Conclusion.

"From its looming above-ground cemeteries to the ghosts believed to haunt its stately homes, New Orleans is a city deeply entwined with death, the undead, and the supernatural. City of the Undead explains how the Big Easy came to be synonymous with the paranormal in the form of ghosts, vampires, and Voodoo Queens. The reasons behind New Orleans's reputation as America's most haunted city are numerous. Its location at the mouth of the Mississippi River grants it a liminal status between water and land, while its stately oaks and Spanish moss create an eerie beauty. The ever-mixing blend of spiritual beliefs from Native American, African, African American, Caribbean, and European cultures resulted in a unique ferment of the paranormal. Elaborate cemeteries and ornate architecture, an extremely high death rate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a long history of enslavement and oppression laid the groundwork for a cultural scene friendly to stories of Voodoo, ghosts, and vampires. Robin Roberts explores representations of three specific supernatural figures: the Voodoo Queen, the ghost, and the vampire. Reviewing the historical bases for these figures, she examines nonfiction, fiction, TV and film, and walking tours to discover how stories of the supernatural can bring attention to the injustices that have faced, and continue to face, marginalized groups in the city. City of the Undead shows how these supernatural figures relate to each other, what function they serve in the greater fabric of the city, and why New Orleans developed and continues to cherish its reputation as a site for the supernatural. It's a city that reminds us of the possibility of life after death and assures us that resistance to injustice need not end in the grave"-- Provided by publisher.

• Intro
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Photos
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Transliteration
• Introduction
• 1. Islam and Alcohol
• 2. Alcohol in the Premodern Islamic World (c. 600 to c. 1400)
• 3. Wine in Islamic Painting, Poetry, and Adab Literature
• 4. Alcohol in the Early Modern Islamic Empires: The Ottomans and the Mughals
• 5. Alcohol in the Early Modern Islamic Empires: The Safavids
• 6. Changing Drinking Habits in the Nineteenth Century- Part One: The Ottoman Empire and North Africa

• 7. Changing Drinking Habits in the Nineteenth Century- Part Two: Qajar Iran
• 8. Alcohol in the Modern Age: New Drinks and Drinking Customs-Part One: The Arab World
• 9. Alcohol in the Modern Age: New Drinks and Drinking Customs-Part Two: Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan
• Conclusion
• Image Credits
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover

• What is swearing?
• Swearing's secret offensive ingredient
• There is no secret ingredient
• Different kinds of wrong
• Taboo, aggression, and harsh sweary sounds
• How to be a really offensive swearer
• You talkin' to me?
• A regulatory fucking mess
• How to do things with swearing
• Fairer swearers
• Swears versus slurs
• Cunt and cocksucker
• Cunt and 'cunt'
• How the f*** do asterisks work?
• Swearing as a force for good
• The value of offensiveness
• Conclusion : you're all fucking superheroes.

• Veiling women's work
• Fashion's fingers: immodest Modistes
• Fasion's voices: "Modistes des Lettres"
• Fashion's eyes: painting in the mirror
• Epilogue: Midinettes in motion.

• Maps and travel / Alfred Hiatt, page 1
• The roads of medieval England / David Harrison, page 18
• Vocabulary for premises used by travellers in Chauver's London / Laura Wright, page 41
• Do not stop at Famagusta! Guides to travel and health in the later Middle Ages / Carole Rawcliffe, page 69
• Horses and the rise of inns in medieval England / Martha Carlin, page 89
• From marvels to motels : imagined and infrastructural worlds of Silk Road travel / Kate Franklin, page 109
• Royal travel, childbirth and female bonding in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II / Kelcey Wilson-Lee, page 125
• Comings and goings in the rural household of Alice de Bryene of Acton Hall, Suffolk, 1412-1413 / ffiona Perigrinor, page 137
• Travelled women : female alien immigrants in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century London / Bart Lambert and Joshua Ravenhill, page 155
• Visual souvenirs of the Emperor Sigismund's visit to England in 1416 / Nicholas Rogers, page 174
• Travel in pre-Reformation English church court records / Robert N. Swanson, page 188
• Travelling entertainers and their patrons in the fifteenth century / Alexandra F. Johnston, page 207
• Travel as duty : some Tudor churchwardens in the West Country / Joanna Mattingly, page 222
• Memories of travel in proofs of age, 1377-1447 / Joel T. Rosenthal, page 233
• William Worcester : traveller and collector / Nicholas Orme, page 250
• Travel in Richard Arnold's book : people, places, texts (Pamela Tudor-Craig Memorial Lecture) / Julia Boffey, page 269
• Botanical marvels and medieval travel / Shayne Aaron Legassie, page 286
• Mandeville in the twenty-first century / Martha W. Driver, page 303
• Wonders of the East : medieval travellers and the monstrous races / Mary Lynn Rampolla, page 320.

• Sharing the South American drink
• Making ka'a South American, 1520s-1810s
• Establishing mate hierarchies in would-be nations, 1810s-1860s
• Taking the herb of Paraguay, 1860s-1910s
• Picturing mate as rural in Argentina and Uruguay, 1870s-1920s
• Selling yerba/erva mate as modern in Argentina and Brazil, 1900s-1960s
• Conspicuously consuming mate in urban Argentina and Uruguay, 1960s-2000s, 1960s-2000s
• A new age for yerba mate?

"Rebekah Pite's examination of mate consumption offers a lens into the everyday life and identity formation in a region often studied individually by country or through comparative politics. The book travels through the top-consuming nations of Argentina and Uruguay; visits Paraguay, the original home of yerba mate; and enters southern Brazil, the second largest producer after Argentina, the main supplier of the Uruguayan market, and a significant consumer in its own right. Pite also analyzes ... the promotion and consumption of yerba mate in other global markets in South America (especially Chile), the Middle East, Europe, and the US, where yerba mate is widely sold in health food stores, online, and in cafes, especially in California, which has a robust 'super food' market and culture"-- Provided by publisher.