Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.
2013
HD9870.5 .R54 2013
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Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.
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9781107000223 (hardback)
9780521166706 (paperback)
9780521166706 (paperback)
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xxvii, 407 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps.
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HD9870.5 .R54 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/767721
Summary
"Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two hundred years. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
pt. I. The first cotton revolution : a centrifugal system, circa 1000-1500
pt. II. Learning and connecting : making cottons global, circa 1500-1750
pt. III. The second cotton revolution : a centripetal system, circa 1750-2000.
pt. II. Learning and connecting : making cottons global, circa 1500-1750
pt. III. The second cotton revolution : a centripetal system, circa 1750-2000.