Shoes: A History From Sandals to Sneakers Book

Introduction. A Long Walk: Shoes, People and Places—Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil

• STEP 1. A FOOT IN THE PAST

• Beneath Their Shining Feet: Shoes and Sandals in Classical Greece—Sue Blundell

• Sumptuous Shoes: Making and Wearing in Medieval Italy—Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli

• Courtly Lady or Courtesan? The Venetian Chopine in the Renaissance—Andrea Vianello

• Walking the Streets of London and Paris in the Enlightenment—Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello

• War Wellingtons: Military Footwear in the Age of Empire—Alison Matthews David

• The Perils of Choice: Women's Footwear in Nineteenth-Century America—Nancy Rexford

• STEP 2. ENCOUNTERS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS

• Purity, Pollution and Place in Traditional Japanese Footwear—Martha Chaiklin

• Interrogating Africa's Past: Footwear Amongst the Yoruba—Tunde M. Akinwumi

• A Dream of Butterflies? Shoes in Chinese Culture—Paola Zamperini

• STEP 3. SHOES, BODIES AND IDENTITIES

• Fashioning Masculinity: Men's Footwear and Modernity —Christopher Breward

• A Delicate Balance: Women, Power and High Heels—Elizabeth Semmelhack

• Shoes and the Erotic Imagination—Valerie Steele

• Sex and Sin: The Magic of Red Shoes—Hilary Davidson

• Beyond the Rainbow: Queer Shoes—Clare Lomas, Peter McNeil and Sally Gray

• STEP 4. REPRESENTATION AND SELF-PRESENTATION

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Made in Italy: Ferragamo and Twentieth-Century Fashion—Stefania Ricci

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Style Through Design: Form and Function—Giovanni Luigi Fontana

• Sole Representation: Shoe Imagery and Twentieth-Century Art—Julia Pine

• Limousines for the Feet: The Rhetoric of Trainers—Alison Gill

• Conclusion. The Male Cinderella: Shoes, Genius and Fantasy—Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello