Author: Edward BainesPublisher: London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835]
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain
Author: Edward BainesPublisher: London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835]
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven BeckertPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain
Author: Andrew UrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain
Author: Edward BainesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108080936
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
This 1835 work by Edward Baines remains significant for the detailed historical and economic information it contains.
The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India
Author: John Forbes WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Arkwrights
Author: R. S. FittonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719026461
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Richard Arkwright was born in Preston in 1732. He married Patience Holt in 1755 and had a son, Richard, in the same year. After Patience's death in 1756, he married Margaret Biggens in 1761. He passed away in 1792, and was buried at Smelting Mill Green, close to Cromford Bridge.
Cotton
Author: Giorgio RielloPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107328225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
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.
Fashion's Favourite
Author: Beverly LemirePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The popular fashion for Indian calicos in the seventeenth century and the genesis of the British cotton industry in the eighteenth century reflected new consumer forces at work within Britain. The East India trade encouraged new patterns of domestic demand in Britain, patterns which were not eradicated even with the prohibition of most Indian fabrics in 1721. Parliamentarians and clergy decried the spread of popular fashions that diminished visible social distinctions and undercut traditional manufactures.
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Author: Robert C. AllenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521868270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Losing the Thread
Author: Jim PowellPublisher:
ISBN: 1789622492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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. It includes an analysis of primary sources never used by historians. Before the civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of Britain's cotton. In August 1861, this fell to almost zero, where it remained for four years. Despite increased supplies from elsewhere, Britain's largest industry received only 36 per cent of the raw material it needed from 1862-64. This book establishes the facts of Britain's raw cotton supply during the war: how much there was of it, in absolute terms and related to the demand, where it came from and why, how much it cost, and what effect the reduced supply had on Britain's cotton manufacture. It includes an enquiry into the causes of the Lancashire cotton famine, which contradicts the historical consensus on the subject. Examining the impact of the civil war on Liverpool and its raw cotton market, this thought-provoking book demonstrates how reckless speculation infested and distorted the market, and lays bare the shadowy world of the Liverpool cotton brokers, who profited hugely from the war while the rest of Lancashire starved.