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UNIFORMS · how America dressed itself
A cycle of historical novels by A.K. Nolan about the ordinary objects America used to make itself legible. Eventually the objects became so familiar we stopped seeing what they were doing.
America built the uniform. Then it built the stories to keep it clean.
UNIFORMS is published by Rebel.Rebel Press, the imprint of Rebel.Rebel. Each volume is struck in the registry like any other piece of the record.
Exhibit I · the cowboy boot Available now
Before the cowboy boot became an American icon, it had to get into the room.
San Antonio, 1882. Salvatore Lucchese arrives from Sicily with a workbench and an understanding that America has rules nobody bothers to write down. A century later, a writer hired to tell the clean version opens a box and finds the company did not begin with the cowboy at all.
Historical fiction. Built from the public record.
Buy the first editionExhibit II · the copper rivet Coming soon
Everybody knows who invented the blue jean. That is the problem.
In 1871 a woman walked into a Nevada tailor shop with a pair of pants that kept coming apart. Her name was never recorded. A western legal thriller about invention, ownership, labour, and the machinery that turns many hands into one man’s name.
Exhibit III
THE COLLAR In preparation
Exhibit IV
CLEAN In preparation
Exhibit V
FIRE In preparation
Exhibit VI
THE CREASE In preparation
Beyond the cycle
Johan Cruyff and the architecture of football Forthcoming
In the summer of 1974, Johan Cruyff showed a Swedish defender everything he expected to see. Then he went the other way.
The movement lasted less than a second. No goal came from it. The match ended nil-nil. Football remembered anyway.
Rebel.Rebel Press Forthcoming
Some places can be conquered. Others can only be belonged to.
On the northern coast of Brittany there is a passage through the water that does not appear correctly on any map. The people who know it call it the cut.