Author: Roland R. DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural implement industry
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Cotton Fabrics in Middle Europe
Author: Roland R. DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural implement industry
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Cotton Fabrics in Middle Europe
Author: United States. Department of Commerce and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600
Author: Maureen Fennell MazzaouiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521230957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This book traces the dynamic advances in textile technology and changes in the structure of demand that accompanied the rise, in the late Middle Ages, of an Italian industry geared to mass production of cotton fabrics. The Italian manufacture, based on borrowed techniques and imitations of Islamic cloth, was the earliest large-scale cotton industry in western Europe. It thus marked a pivotal stage in the transmission of the knowledge and use of this textile fibre from the Mediterranean basin to northern Europe. The success of the Italians in creating new markets for a wide variety of products that included pure cotton, as well as mixed fabrics combining cotton with linen, hemp, wool and silk, permanently altered the patterns of taste and consumption in European society. Cotton, in various stages of proceeding, was at the heart of a complex network of communications that linked the north Italian towns to the source of raw materials and to international markets for finished goods. In the developing urban economy of northern Italy, cotton played a role comparable in magnitude to that of wool and shared with the latter certain basic features of early capitalistic organization.
Government Publications Relating to Textiles
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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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.
The Resources of the Empire
Author: Publications ...
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Annual Report of the Public Printer ...
Author: United States. Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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