Fibre That Changed the World - The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600-1990s

Klappentext 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. The data and the views presented offer a range of challenges to currently-accepted interpretations! not least the depreciation of the role of the industry during British industrialization and the myth of the destructive impact of western competition upon the craft industries of Asia. Zusammenfassung Offers global perspectives on the cotton industry. This book aims to challenge the argument of the destructive impact of western competition upon the craft industries of Asia. It concludes with a historical and global bibliography of the industry which supplements the literature cited in the 18 individual essays.

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• Authors: Douglas Jeremy Farnie
• Assisted by: Douglas Farnie (Editor), Douglas A. Farnie (Editor), David Jeremy (Editor), David J. Jeremy (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2004
• EAN: 9780199255665
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925566-5
• No. of pages: 650
• Series: Pasold Studies in Textile History; Pasold Studies in Textile Hist; Pasold Studies in Textile Hist
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries