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Zusatztext 'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography! the variety of themes! and the historical problems will engage students of all levels! undergraduate! graduate! and postdoctoral! in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal! Vol. XXX! No. 1 '...a collection of selected essays...of a quite uniformly high quality. The editor has provided an excellent introduction! surveying the broad trends in the historiography of the topic and alerting readers to controversies and conflicting interpretations...the book remains a valuable addition to the literature and provides an impressive summary of current scholarship on the topic.' Economic History Review! Vol. LII! No. 4 Informationen zum Autor Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui Zusammenfassung This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Ottoman Empire: Incorporation of the Middle East into the European world-economy! Murat Ã?izakça; Iran: The Iranian raw silk trade and European manufacture in the 17th and 18th centuries! Edmund Herzig; British North America: The gender division of labour in the production of textiles in 18th-century rural Pennsylvania (rethinking the New England model)! Adrienne D. Hood; Spanish colonial America and Brazil: ÂProto-industria colonial?! Manuel Miño Grijalva; Reconsidering textile production in late colonial Brazil: new evidence from Minas Gerais! Douglas C. Libby; China: La production textile dans la Chine traditionelle! Kang Chao; Japan: Textiles and trade in Tokugawa Japan! William B. Hauser; India: Textile producers and production in late 17th-century Coromandel! Joseph J. Brennig; Weavers! merchants and company: the handloom industry in southeastern India! 1750-1790! S. Arasaratnam; Southeast Asia: The textile industry in southeast Asia! 1400-1800! Kenneth R. Hall; Africa: West African textiles! 1500-1800! Carolyn Keyes Adenaike; Raffia cloth in west central Africa! 1500-1800! Jan Vansina; Index. ...
