Author: John Watts (Ph.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Facts of the Cotton Famine
Author: John Watts (Ph.D.)The Facts of the Cotton Famine
Author: John WattsPublisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall ; Manchester : A. Ireland
ISBN:
Category : Cotton famine, 1861-1864
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
Catalogue of the Reference Library
Author: Birmingham Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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.
Tombstone
Author: Yang JishengPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374277931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
Author: Broadus MitchellPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Ethical Empire?
Author: Zak LeonardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009321056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This interdisciplinary work, which traces the formation of global reformist networks and reconceptualizes anti-colonial critique, will appeal to students of history and political science.
Catalogue of the Christie Collection
Author: University of Manchester. Library (1904-1972). Christie CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
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