Losing the Thread - Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Jim Powell was an Honorary Research Associate, Department of History, University of Liverpool. Klappentext Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain's largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. This book examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and its victims, during the war. Zusammenfassung This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain’s raw cotton trade and on the Liverpool cotton market.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Powell
• Edition: Liverpool University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781837644346
• ISBN: 978-1-83764-434-6
• Pages: 256
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire culturelle