The Fibre that Changed the World

The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600-1990s
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925566-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 1029 g

Reihe: Pasold Studies in Textile History

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.

Cotton has been a vital industry for many nations. Always it has been a vehicle for factory-based production and associated industrialization. Subsequently it has frequently served as a focus for the readjustment of mature industrial economies. This volum

1: THE INDUSTRY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT; 1. The Role of Cotton as a World Power, 1780-1990; 2. The Role of Merchants as Prime Movers in the Expansion of the Cotton Industry, 1760-1990; 3. The Lancashire Cotton Industry, the Royal Navy and the British Empire; 4.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farnie, Douglas

Jeremy, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Textilindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte