Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world

Giorgio Riello

"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"--

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Year of publication:	2013 ; Online-Ausg.
Authors:	Riello, Giorgio
Publisher:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Subject:	Welt \| World \| Baumwollindustrie \| Cotton industry \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Baumwolle \| Cotton \| Baumwollfaser \| Baumwollproduktion \| Baumwollhandel

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xxvii, 407 p., [32] p. of plates) ill. (some col.), maps.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries Contents; Figures and colour plates; Maps; Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: global cotton and global history; Argument; Content; Debates; Methodology; PART I The first cotton revolution: a centrifugal system, circa 1000-1500; 2 Selling to the world: India and the old cotton system; Producing for the world; The trading world of Indian cottons; Creating products; Cotton textile consumption in India; Local and imported products; Conclusion; 3 `Wool growing on wild trees': the global reach of cotton; The spread of cotton; Cotton cultivation in the early modern world The commercialisation of cottonTechnologies and the creation of cotton cloth; Conclusion; 4 The worlds best: cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India; Producing cotton textiles in India; Textile production in India and Europe; The Chinese cotton industry; Cotton manufacturing in the Levant and Ottoman Empire; Cotton manufacturing in medieval and early modern Europe; The competitiveness of Indian cloth; The distinctiveness of Indian cloth; Conclusion; PART II Learning and connecting: making cottons global, circa 1500-1750; 5 The Indian apprenticeship: Europeans trading in Indian cottons Portuguese traders in the Indian OceanThe European East India companies; Knowledge and information: what to buy; Dealing with variety; Product failures and customisation; Regulating production; Conclusion; 6 New consuming habits: how cottons entered European houses and wardrobes; A calico craze? The popularity of cotton; How competitive were cottons?; The visible hand of the state; Stopping the rise of cottons?; Import substitution: from consumption to production; What were cottons for?; Conclusion; 7 From Asia to America: cottons in the Atlantic world; Selling cottons to Africa The cotton trade to the AmericasRe-export substitution; Poles of European cotton manufacturing; Conclusion; 8 Learning and substituting: printing cotton textiles in Europe; Weaving and printing; Learning from India; The role of Armenian artisans; The development of calico printing in Europe; Reinterpreting global colours; From art to industry; Science and the state; Conclusion; PART III The second cotton revolution: a centripetal system, circa 1750-2000; 9 Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World; Why America?; Why plantation slavery?; The rise and decline of West Indian cotton `King cotton': the century of US cotton productionConclusion; 10 Competing with India: cotton and European industrialisation; Industrialisation and the historiography of manufacturing; Industrious paths: Europe and China; Competing with India: productivity; Cotton and the Indian road to quality; Comparing England and India; Britain and continental Europe; Conclusion; 11 `The wolf in sheeps clothing': the potential of cotton; A woollen industrial revolution; A linen revolution; Cotton in Europe; The political economy of textiles Patterns of supply: securing cotton in the age of industrialisation 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
ISBN:	978-1-107-33300-0 ; 978-1-107-00022-3 ; 978-1-107-00022-3 ; 978-0-521-16670-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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