Author: Andrew Ure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated, and Illustrated by 150 Original Figures, Engraved on Wood and Steel; with an Introductory View of Its Comparative State in Foreign Countries, Drawn Chiefly from Personal Survey
Author: Andrew Ure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated ...
Author: Andrew Ure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Cotton Manufacture of Great-Britain
Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world. 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. 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. The result is a book 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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world. 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. 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. The result is a book 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.
A Practical Detail of the Cotton Manufacture of the United States of America
Author: James Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Practical Detail of the Cotton Manufacture of the United States of America; and the State of the Cotton Manufacture of that Country Contrasted and Compared with that of Gret Britain; with Comparative Estimates
A History of the English People ...
Author: Elie Halévy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Bibliography of the Cotton Manufacture
Author: Charles Jeptha Hill Woodbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
British Comment on the United States
Author: Ada B. Nisbet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520098110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520098110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry
Author: James Montgomery
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691897
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Behind the original pubication of Montgomery's "Practical Detail" (1840) lay the continuing concern about world markets & international economic & technological leadership. Montgomery's achievement lay in the wealth & reliability of the comparative data he assembled, for the first time, about the Am. & British cotton industries, which were then the high tech of industrializing societies. For the tech. & economics of production of the early 19th century cotton industries, his work remains indispensable. A mss. has recently surfaced in which Montgomery recorded the changes he intended for the 2nd ed. of his classic. The vol. is prefaced by a biog. of Montgomery, tracing his Scottish background & his migration from Glasgow to New England in the 1830s, & an intro. to the 2nd ed., establishing its context. Appended to the Montogmery text are the documents of the "justitia controversy," from the Boston newspapers of 1841, in which the merits & relative costs of steam & water power were debated. Scholarly footnotes, textual & substantive, are provided as appropriate. Illus.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691897
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Behind the original pubication of Montgomery's "Practical Detail" (1840) lay the continuing concern about world markets & international economic & technological leadership. Montgomery's achievement lay in the wealth & reliability of the comparative data he assembled, for the first time, about the Am. & British cotton industries, which were then the high tech of industrializing societies. For the tech. & economics of production of the early 19th century cotton industries, his work remains indispensable. A mss. has recently surfaced in which Montgomery recorded the changes he intended for the 2nd ed. of his classic. The vol. is prefaced by a biog. of Montgomery, tracing his Scottish background & his migration from Glasgow to New England in the 1830s, & an intro. to the 2nd ed., establishing its context. Appended to the Montogmery text are the documents of the "justitia controversy," from the Boston newspapers of 1841, in which the merits & relative costs of steam & water power were debated. Scholarly footnotes, textual & substantive, are provided as appropriate. Illus.