Books > History > European history
|
Buy Now
The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600 (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,191
Discovery Miles 11 910
|
|
The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600 (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Against Period Poverty
Total price: R1,211
Discovery Miles: 12 110
|
This book traces the dynamic advances in textile technology and
changes in the structure of demand that accompanied the rise, in
the late Middle Ages, of an Italian industry geared to mass
production of cotton fabrics. The Italian manufacture, based on
borrowed techniques and imitations of Islamic cloth, was the
earliest large-scale cotton industry in western Europe. It thus
marked a pivotal stage in the transmission of the knowledge and use
of this textile fibre from the Mediterranean basin to northern
Europe. The success of the Italians in creating new markets for a
wide variety of products that included pure cotton, as well as
mixed fabrics combining cotton with linen, hemp, wool and silk,
permanently altered the patterns of taste and consumption in
European society. Cotton, in various stages of proceeding, was at
the heart of a complex network of communications that linked the
north Italian towns to the source of raw materials and to
international markets for finished goods. In the developing urban
economy of northern Italy, cotton played a role comparable in
magnitude to that of wool and shared with the latter certain basic
features of early capitalistic organization.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.