The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0199696160 ISBN 13 : 9780199696161

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Cotton textiles were the first good to achieve a truly global reach. For many centuries muslins and calicoes from the Indian subcontinent were demanded in the trading worlds of the Indian Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean. After 1500, new circuits of exchange were developed. Of these, the early-modern European craze for Indian calicoes and the huge nineteenth-century export trade in Lancashire goods, and subsequent deindustrialization of the Indian subcontinent, are merely the best known. These episodes, although of great importance, far from exhaust the story of cotton. They are well known because of the enormous research energy that has been devoted to them, but other important elements of cotton's long history are deserving of similar attention. The purpose of this collection of essays is to examine the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. This volume sheds light on new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development? Essays included in the volume are authored by 19 scholars from eight different nations, all of whom are specialists in the study of textiles. They are drawn from a range of sub-disciplines within history and bring together their areas and periods of specialization to provide a global history. Therefore, the volume covers a wide variety of approaches to the study of history, which is essential for constructing a global picture. Some of the contributors are internationally well known for their publications on the history of cotton, as well as other textiles in different world areas. The volume also draws upon the research of a number of younger scholars whose work will form the core of the future development of textile history as a global discipline.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Giorgio Riello is Assistant Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has written on early modern textiles, dress and fashion in Europe and Asia. From 2004 to 2007 he was Research Officer for the Global Economic History Network at the London School of Economics. He is the author of A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2006). Giorgio is currently writing a monograph entitled Worldwide Wefts: Cotton Textiles in Global History.

Revue de presse :

Review from previous edition A must-have for any academic libraryand a required resource for any textile historian. (The Textile Society)

...a collection of essays of high factual value and close scrutiny of process, its revisionism lying in its world-ranging approach to a subject which has largely been viewed from a Western perspective. (Jane Jakeman, Times Literary Supplement)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199696160
• ISBN 13: 9780199696161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 489