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Cotton [electronic resource] : the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.

By: Riello, Giorgio.
Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xxvii, 407 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps.Subject(s): Cotton textile industry -- History | Cotton trade -- History | Cotton -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.4/767721 Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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