Author: Arthur W. Silver
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Manchester Men and Indian Cotton, 1847-1872
Author: Arthur W. Silver
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa
Author: Kazuo Kobayashi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 303018675X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 303018675X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.
Manchester men & Indian cotton 1847-72
Author: Arthur Silver
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Indian Cotton Supply, the Only Effectual and Permanent Measure for Relief to Lancashire
Author: Alexander Charles Brice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton famine
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton famine
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Cultivating Knowledge
Author: Andrew Flachs
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.
A Monograph on Indian Railway Rates
Author: Sarat Chandra Ghose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
International Cotton Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
The Indian Textile Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Commercial Products of India
Author: Sir George Watt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Empire Cotton Growing Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description