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Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world

Cotton-fabric270RIELLO Giorgio

Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013, XXVII-407 p.-[32] p. de pl.

ISBN 978-1-10-700022-3

MOND 685

Résumé éditeur :

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.

Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History at the University of Warwick and a member of Warwick’s Global History and Culture Centre. He is the author of A Foot in the Past (2006) and has co-edited several books including The Spinning World (2009), How India Clothed the World (2009) and Global Design History (2011). In 2009 he received the Newcomen Prize in Business History, and in 2010 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Axe de recherche :

  • Axe 1 : Cultures visuelles et matérielles

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Corinne HÉLIN (12 novembre 2015). Cotton : the fabric that made the modern world. IRHiS-Bibliothèque. Consulté le 26 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/lxkn


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