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010			_a2012-034005
020			_a9780521166706 (paperback)
039			_a202110041549 _bstaff _c201510191007 _d staff _c201510121526 _d staff _y 201510121525 _z staff
082			_a338.4 767721 _bRIE [Shelf 75 ]
100			_aRiello, Giorgio.
245			_aCotton : _bthe fabric that made the modern world / _cGiorgio Riello.
264			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_axxvii, 407 pages, [32] pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c26 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [296]-394) and index.
520			_a"Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering _425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two hundred years. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aCotton textile industry _x History.
650			_aCotton trade _x History.
650			_aCotton _x History.
650			_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. _2 bisacsh
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