ISBN0521166705 (paperback)
110700022X (hardback)
9780521166706 (paperback)
9781107000223 (hardback)
数量xxvii, 407 pages, [32] pages of plates : ; 25 cm
一般注記Introduction: Global cotton and global history -- Part I. The first cotton revolution : a centrifugal system, circa 1000-1500. Selling to the world : India and the old cotton system ; 'Wool growing on wild trees' : the global reach of cotton ; The world's best : cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India -- Part II. Learning and connecting : making cottons global, circa 1500-1750. The Indian apprenticeship : Europeans trading in Indian cottons ; New consuming habits : how cottons entered European houses and wardrobes ; From Asia to America : cottons in the Atlantic world ; Learning and substituting : printing cotton textiles in Europe -- Part III. The second cotton revolution : a centripetal system, circa 1750-2000. Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World ; Competing with India : cotton and European industrialism ; 'The wolf in sheep's clothing' : the potential of cotton ; Global outcomes : the West and the new cotton system ; Conclusion: From system to system; from divergence to convergence.
Originally published: 2013.