Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.
Riello, Giorgio.
2013
HD9870.5 .R54 2013
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Title Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.
Author Riello, Giorgio.
ISBN 9781107000223 (hardback)
9780521166706 (paperback)
Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description xxvii, 407 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps.
Call Number 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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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.

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