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摘要

Fashion's steady growth as an area of academic study over the past fifteen years has been paralleled by Berg's desire to position itself as the major publisher of texts on the subject. This move was heralded by the launch of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture in 1997, and continues with its catalogue of books demonstrating fashion's significance to a wide range of disciplines from Anthropology to Marketing. A Cultural History of Fashion: From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk is part of Berg's recent foray into commissioning text books which can serve the growing number of fashion-related courses internationally. Since many such courses have been established in places without a broad background in the study of fashion as an academic subject, this is a potentially rich market. Such books also have relevance to those in Social Sciences and Humanities subjects who have not studied fashion before and can benefit from introductory texts that act as guides to the subject's key themes and issues.