@article{888115,
      recid = {888115},
      author = {Riello, Giorgio.},
      title = {Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      pages = {xxvii, 407 p., [32] p. of plates :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/888115},
}