Author: Walter Maclagan ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indigo
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Culture and Manufacture of Indigo
Author: Walter Maclagan ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indigo
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India
Author: Prakash KumarPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139576968
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on this colonial industry. Charting the indigo culture from the early modern period to the twentieth century, Kumar discusses how knowledge of indigo culture thrived among peasant traditions on the Indian subcontinent in the early modern period and was then developed by Caribbean planters and French naturalists who codified this knowledge into widely disseminated texts. European planters who settled in Bengal with the establishment of British rule in the late eighteenth century drew on this information. From the nineteenth century, indigo culture became more modern, science-based and expert driven, and with the advent of a cheaper, purer synthetic indigo in 1897, indigo science crossed paths with the colonial state's effort to develop a science for agricultural development. Only at the end of the First World War, when the industrial use of synthetic indigo for textile dyeing and printing became almost universal, did the indigo industry's optimism fade away.
The Baramahal Records
Author: The Baramahal Records
Author: Madras (India : Presidency)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Madras (India : Presidency)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Indigo
Author: Catherine E. McKinleyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408822369
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Indigo is the rich, electrifying history of a precious dye: its relationship to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its profound influence on fashion, and its spiritual significance - all very much alive today. But it is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley's ancestors include a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan, several generations of Jewish 'rag traders' and Massachusetts textile factory owners, and African slaves who were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo. Her journey takes her to nine West African countries and is resplendent with powerful lessons of heritage and history which shape the way she understands her world at home.
Red, White, and Black Make Blue
Author: Andrea FeeserPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820345539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But when blue became the most popular color for the textiles that Britain turned out in large quantities in the eighteenth century, the South Carolina indigo that colored most of this cloth became a major component in transatlantic commodity chains. In Red, White, and Black Make Blue, Andrea Feeser tells the stories of all the peoples who made indigo a key part of the colonial South Carolina experience as she explores indigo's relationships to land use, slave labor, textile production and use, sartorial expression, and fortune building. In the eighteenth century, indigo played a central role in the development of South Carolina. The popularity of the color blue among the upper and lower classes ensured a high demand for indigo, and the climate in the region proved sound for its cultivation. Cheap labor by slaves—both black and Native American—made commoditization of indigo possible. And due to land grabs by colonists from the enslaved or expelled indigenous peoples, the expansion into the backcountry made plenty of land available on which to cultivate the crop. Feeser recounts specific histories—uncovered for the first time during her research—of how the Native Americans and African slaves made the success of indigo in South Carolina possible. She also emphasizes the material culture around particular objects, including maps, prints, paintings, and clothing. Red, White, and Black Make Blue is a fraught and compelling history of both exploitation and empowerment, revealing the legacy of a modest plant with an outsized impact.
Patent Office Library Series
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930
Author: Ghulam A. NadriPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004311556
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India and elsewhere and caused periods of boom and slump in the industry. Using the commodity chains conceptual framework he examines the stages in the trajectory of indigo from production to consumption. Nadri shows convincingly that the growth or decline in indigo production and trade in India was a part of the global processes of production, trade, and consumption and that indigo as a global commodity was embedded in the politics of empire and colonial expansion.
The Saturday Magazine
Author: A Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry Adapted for the Use of Manufacturers, Chemists, and All Interested in the Utilization of Organic Materials in the Industrial Arts
Author: Samuel Philip SadtlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry, Organic
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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