Cotton Riello Giorgio University of Warwick
Cotton Riello Giorgio University of Warwick Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution,…
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Cotton Riello Giorgio University of Warwick
Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. 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. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses.
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. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in