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Eric Hobsbawm famously wrote, 'Whoever says Industrial Revolution says cotton.' The modern history of cotton textile is well known, and cotton's contribution to industrialization processes around the world much appreciated. However, the medieval and early modern antecedents of this produce are far less clear, and so the purpose of this collection of essays is to explore the per-modern history of cotton. To explore the nature of this history, and the importance of the Indian subcontinent, whose cotton goods traversed the world and which lay at the center of a vast worldwide trading system, requires a global perspective, which the essays in this volume provide. Ranging from China and Japan, to Europe, the Ottoman Empire, South-East Asia, and East and West Africa, the essays explore the global exchange and use of cotton textiles in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic worlds, as well as the impact of Indian cotton on local consumption and production systems. Taken together, they provide a wide-ranging picture of cotton cloth in the centuries between 1200 and 1850, as well as a framework which decenter Europe in the per-modern global order.
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Review from previous edition A must-have for any academic libraryand a required resource for any textile historian. (The Textile Society)
...a collection of essays of high factual value and close scrutiny of process, its revisionism lying in its world-ranging approach to a subject which has largely been viewed from a Western perspective. (Jane Jakeman, Times Literary Supplement)
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...a collection of essays of high factual value and close scrutiny of process, its revisionism lying in its world-ranging approach to a subject which has largely been viewed from a Western perspective. (Jane Jakeman, Times Literary Supplement)
Giorgio Riello is Assistant Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has written on early modern textiles, dress and fashion in Europe and Asia. From 2004 to 2007 he was Research Officer for the Global Economic History Network at the London School of Economics. He is the author of A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2006). Giorgio is currently writing a monograph entitled Worldwide Wefts: Cotton Textiles in Global History.
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- PublisherPrimus Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 9380607296
- ISBN 13 9789380607290
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages506
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