Author: Julia De Lacy MannPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005381
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Textile History and Economic History
Author: Julia De Lacy MannPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005381
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles
Author: D. T. JenkinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521341073
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
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How India Clothed the World
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047429974
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.
Cotton
Author: Giorgio RielloPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107328225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Textile History and Economic History
Author: N. B. HarteTextiles and Capitalism in Mexico
Author: Richard J. SalvucciPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400847729
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory and simple measurement to analyze the obraje and its inability to survive Mexico's integration into the world market after 1790. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Textile Industry in North Carolina
Author: Brent D. GlassPublisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Author Brent D. Glass examines North Carolina's textile industry from its roots in the spinning wheels and handlooms of the colonial and antebellum periods through the massive buy-outs, consolidations, and plant closings of the 1980s. Contains more than 50 black-and-white illustrations and a selected bibliography.
Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven BeckertPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
The Spinning World
Author: Giorgio RielloPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199696160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. It provides new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development?
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