Cotton and Cotton Manufactures in the United States
Author : Edward Atkinson
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Cotton manufacture
ISBN :
Author : Edward Atkinson
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Cotton manufacture
ISBN :
Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0375713964
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.
Author : James Montgomery
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Cotton growing
ISBN :
Author : Edward Baines
Publisher : London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835]
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Cotton
ISBN :
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Cotton trade
ISBN :
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Cotton manufacture
ISBN :
Author : United States. Tariff Board
Publisher :
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Cotton manufacture
ISBN :
Author : Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107328225
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.
Author : Victor Selden Clark
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : Robert Marion La Follette
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Inventors
ISBN :