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By Giorgio Riello

ISBN-10: 0199696160

ISBN-13: 9780199696161

Cotton textiles have been the 1st reliable to accomplish a very international achieve. for plenty of centuries muslins and calicoes from the Indian subcontinent have been demanded within the buying and selling worlds of the Indian Ocean and the jap Mediterranean. After 1500, new circuits of alternate have been constructed. of those, the early-modern eu craze for Indian calicoes and the massive nineteenth-century export exchange in Lancashire items, and next deindustrialization of the Indian subcontinent, are simply the simplest identified. those episodes, even supposing of serious value, faraway from exhaust the tale of cotton. they're popular as a result of the huge, immense examine strength that has been dedicated to them, yet different vital parts of cotton's lengthy background are deserving of comparable consciousness.
The objective of this selection of essays is to ascertain the background of cotton textiles at an international point over the interval 1200-1850. This quantity sheds gentle on new solutions to 2 questions: what's it approximately cotton that made it the paradigmatic first worldwide commodity? And moment, why did cotton industries in numerous components of the realm keep on with varied paths of improvement?

Essays incorporated within the quantity are authored via 19 students from 8 diversified countries, all of whom are experts within the learn of textiles. they're drawn from a number sub-disciplines inside of heritage and convey jointly their parts and sessions of specialization to supply a world historical past. accordingly, the quantity covers a large choice of methods to the learn of heritage, that's crucial for developing a world photograph. a few of the members are the world over renowned for his or her courses at the heritage of cotton, in addition to different textiles in numerous international parts. the amount additionally attracts upon the examine of a few more youthful students whose paintings will shape the center of the long run improvement of fabric heritage as an international self-discipline.

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UJun, Daxue yanyi bu,juan 22, 'Gongfu zhichang', 7. Cited in Xu Xinwu,Jiangnan tubushi (Shanghai, 1992), 1r. , 'Sapeques et tissus al'epoque des T'ang (618---906):remarques sur la circulation monetaire dans la Chine medievale',Journa/ of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 19/ 3 (1966), 323-44. 7 Denis Twitchett, 'Provincial Autonomy and Central Finance in Late T'ang', Asia Major, 11/z (1965), 211-32. 8 Valery M. Garrett, Chinese Clothing: An Illustrated Guide (Hong Kong, 1994), 193-6.

In Bengal, an East India Company official noted in the late eighteenth century that there was 'no class of people who depend upon it as a profession, it is generally performed as a subsidiary employment by the female'. 34 As just noted, some of the spinning was done in the cotton-growing centres themselves, but the bulk was done in closer proximity to the manufacturing areas. In some cases, the raw cotton was distributed to women by weavers and merchants on a putting-out basis. In others, women purchased cotton, spun the fibre, and marketed the yarn on their own account.

10 In the eighteenth century, the region 5 Tome Pires, The 'Suma Oriental' of Tomi Pires, and the 'Book' of Francisco Rodrigues (London, 1944), 42, quoted in John Guy, Woven Cargoes: Indian Textiles in the East (London, 1998), 39. 1750 (Cambridge, 1982), 126. 7 Guy, Woven Cargoes, 41. 8 John Irwin and Margaret Hall, Indian Embroideries(Ahmedabad, 1973), 29. 9 William Methwold, 'Relations of the Kingdom of Golconda and Other Neighbouring Nations', in W. H. ), Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century (London, 1931), quoted in Guy, Woven Cargoes,30.

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