The Spinning World A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850
by Riello, Giorgio; Parthasarathi, PrasannanEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2011-11-14
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Summary
The purpose of this collection of essays is to examine the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850.
Author Biography
Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. Prasannan Parthasarathi is Associate Professor or History at Boston College.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. viii |
| List of Maps | p. xi |
| List of Figures | p. xii |
| List of Tables | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Introduction: Cotton Textiles and Global History | p. 1 |
| World Areas of Cotton Textile Manufacturing | |
| Cotton Textiles in the Indian Subcontinent, 1200-1800 | p. 17 |
| The Resistant Fibre: Cotton Textiles in Imperial China | p. 43 |
| The First European Cotton Industry: Italy and Germany, 1100-1800 | p. 63 |
| Ottoman Cotton Textiles: The Story of a Success that did not Last, 1500-1800 | p. 89 |
| 'Guinea Cloth': Production and Consumption of Cotton Textiles in West Africa before and during the Atlantic Slave Trade | p. 105 |
| The Production of Cotton Textiles in Early Modern South-East Asia | p. 127 |
| Global Trade and Consumption of Cotton Textiles | |
| The Dutch and the Indian Ocean Textile Trade | p. 145 |
| Awash in a Sea of Cloth: Gujarat, Africa, and the Western Indian Ocean, 1300-1800 | p. 161 |
| Japan Indianized: The Material Culture of Imported Textiles in Japan, 1550-1850 | p. 181 |
| Revising the Historical Narrative: India, Europe, and the Cotton Trade, c. 1300-1800 | p. 205 |
| Cottons Consumption in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic | p. 227 |
| Fashion, Race, and Cotton Textiles in Colonial Spanish America | p. 247 |
| The Globalization of Cotton Textiles: Indian Cottons, Europe, and the Atlantic World, 1600-1850 | p. 261 |
| Cotton Revolutions and their Consequences in Europe and Asia | |
| The Birth of a New European Industry: L'Indiennage in Seventeenth-Century Marseilles | p. 291 |
| What were Cottons for in the Early Industrial Revolution? | p. 307 |
| The Limits of Wool and the Potential of Cotton in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | p. 327 |
| The Geopolitics of a Global Industry: Eurasian Divergence and the Mechanization of Cotton Textile Production in England | p. 351 |
| Cotton and the Peasant Economy: A Foreign Fibre in Early Modern Japan | p. 367 |
| Involution and Chinese Cotton Textile Production: Songjiang in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | p. 387 |
| Decline in Three Keys: Indian Cotton Manufacturing from the Late Eighteenth Century | p. 397 |
| Glossary | p. 409 |
| Bibliography | p. 421 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 469 |
| Index | p. 475 |
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