The Fibre that Changed the World
The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600-1990s
ISBN13: 9780199255665ISBN10: 0199255660
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648 pages
Jul 2004,
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Description
This volume offers new and global perspectives on the cotton industry. One group of essays sets it in its global context. A second group undertakes a detailed survey of eight different states, including the major players in the world league of cotton textile producers. The data and the views presented offer a range of challenges to currently-accepted interpretations, not least the depreciation of the role of the industry during British industrialization and the myth of the destructive impact of western competition upon the craft industries of Asia.Reviews
"offers many insights on contrasting trajectories of growth"-- Susan Wolcott, Binghamton University, Journal of Economic History
Product Details
648 pages; 9 halftones, 4 color plates, 7 maps; ISBN13: 978-0-19-925566-5ISBN10: 0-19-925566-0About the Author(s)
Edited by Douglas Farnie, Visiting Professor, Centre for Business History, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School , and David Jeremy, Professor of Business History, Centre for Business History, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
