Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.
2013
HD9870.5 .R54 2013
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Title
Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.
Author
ISBN
9780511706097 (electronic bk.)
051170609X (electronic bk.)
9781107334663 (electronic bk.)
1107334667 (electronic bk.)
9781107333000 (electronic bk.)
1107333008 (electronic bk.)
9781107332300 (electronic)
1107332303
9781107000223 (hardback)
110700022X (hardback)
9780521166706 (paperback)
0521166705 (paperback)
9781299403222
1299403220
051170609X (electronic bk.)
9781107334663 (electronic bk.)
1107334667 (electronic bk.)
9781107333000 (electronic bk.)
1107333008 (electronic bk.)
9781107332300 (electronic)
1107332303
9781107000223 (hardback)
110700022X (hardback)
9780521166706 (paperback)
0521166705 (paperback)
9781299403222
1299403220
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvii, 407 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number
HD9870.5 .R54 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)833768728
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-394) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Global cotton and global history
Part I. The first cotton revolution: a centrifugal system, circa 1000-1500. Selling to the world: India and the old cotton system
'Wool growing on wild trees': the global reach of cotton
The world's best: cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India
Part II. Learning and connecting: making cottons global, circa 1500-1750. The Indian apprenticeship: Europeans trading in Indian cottons
New consuming habits: how cottons entered European houses and wardrobes
From Asia to America: cottons in the Atlantic world
Learning and substituting: printing cotton textiles in Europe
Part III. The second cotton revolution: a centripetal system, circa 1750-2000. Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World
Competing with India: cotton and European industrialism
'The wolf in sheep's clothing': the potential of cotton
Global outcomes: the West and the new cotton system
Conclusion: From system to system; from divergence to convergence.
Part I. The first cotton revolution: a centrifugal system, circa 1000-1500. Selling to the world: India and the old cotton system
'Wool growing on wild trees': the global reach of cotton
The world's best: cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India
Part II. Learning and connecting: making cottons global, circa 1500-1750. The Indian apprenticeship: Europeans trading in Indian cottons
New consuming habits: how cottons entered European houses and wardrobes
From Asia to America: cottons in the Atlantic world
Learning and substituting: printing cotton textiles in Europe
Part III. The second cotton revolution: a centripetal system, circa 1750-2000. Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World
Competing with India: cotton and European industrialism
'The wolf in sheep's clothing': the potential of cotton
Global outcomes: the West and the new cotton system
Conclusion: From system to system; from divergence to convergence.
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Print version: Riello, Giorgio. Cotton. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
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