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Cotton - The Fabric that Made the Modern World (Paperback)
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Cotton - The Fabric that Made the Modern World (Paperback)
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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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