Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world / Giorgio Riello.
"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,...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Global cotton and global history
- Part I. The first cotton revolution: a centrifugal system, circa 1000-1500. Selling to the world: India and the old cotton system
- 'Wool growing on wild trees': the global reach of cotton
- The world's best: cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India
- Part II. Learning and connecting: making cottons global, circa 1500-1750. The Indian apprenticeship: Europeans trading in Indian cottons
- New consuming habits: how cottons entered European houses and wardrobes
- From Asia to America: cottons in the Atlantic world
- Learning and substituting: printing cotton textiles in Europe
- Part III. The second cotton revolution: a centripetal system, circa 1750-2000. Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World
- Competing with India: cotton and European industrialism
- 'The wolf in sheep's clothing': the potential of cotton
- Global outcomes: the West and the new cotton system
- Conclusion: From system to system; from divergence to convergence.