Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World - Softcover

Riello, Giorgio

 
9780521166706: Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World

Synopsis

A fascinating account of how cotton industrialised Europe and transformed the early modern global economy.

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About the Author

Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History at the University of Warwick and a member of Warwick's Global History and Culture Centre. He is the author of A Foot in the Past (2006) and has co-edited several books including The Spinning World (2009), How India Clothed the World (2009) and Global Design History (2011). In 2009 he received the Newcomen Prize in Business History, and in 2010 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013
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