Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
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.
Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
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.
The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780
Author: Alfred P. Wadsworth
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Cotton Industry and Trade
Author: S.J. Chapman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429870906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
First published in 1905, this volume on the Cotton Industry emerged in the context of Joseph Chamberlain’s proposed Tariff Reform and provided an academic perspective on the industry. The author, S.J. Chapman, was an established historian of Lancashire cotton and produced this volume as an elementary introduction to the economics of the industry and some of its issues. He discusses the raw material, industrial and commercial history, British trade and foreign tariffs, exploring the historical influence of tariffs on the cotton trade and including two articles reprinted from the Manchester Guardian. The newspaper was strongly affiliated with the Liberal Party who would win a landslide victory the following year based in part on their opposition to Tariff Reform.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429870906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
First published in 1905, this volume on the Cotton Industry emerged in the context of Joseph Chamberlain’s proposed Tariff Reform and provided an academic perspective on the industry. The author, S.J. Chapman, was an established historian of Lancashire cotton and produced this volume as an elementary introduction to the economics of the industry and some of its issues. He discusses the raw material, industrial and commercial history, British trade and foreign tariffs, exploring the historical influence of tariffs on the cotton trade and including two articles reprinted from the Manchester Guardian. The newspaper was strongly affiliated with the Liberal Party who would win a landslide victory the following year based in part on their opposition to Tariff Reform.
The Cotton Industry
Author: Matthew Brown Hammond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The International Cotton Trade
Author: Julian Roche
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 1845692810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book includes every aspect of the cotton trade, starting with the history and background, its growth and production patterns. It goes on to examine the international trade itself, the key players, recent trends, and a look at cotton prices, forecasting, and the factors that affect the cotton price. The author looks at end uses for cotton by analysing the garment industry as a whole and the competition for cotton. This is related to cotton consumption and the global economics of this commodity. The final chapter looks to the future and attempts to forecast trends for the industry over the coming years.
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 1845692810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book includes every aspect of the cotton trade, starting with the history and background, its growth and production patterns. It goes on to examine the international trade itself, the key players, recent trends, and a look at cotton prices, forecasting, and the factors that affect the cotton price. The author looks at end uses for cotton by analysing the garment industry as a whole and the competition for cotton. This is related to cotton consumption and the global economics of this commodity. The final chapter looks to the future and attempts to forecast trends for the industry over the coming years.
The Cotton Trade
Author: George McHenry
Publisher: London : Saunders, Otley
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher: London : Saunders, Otley
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Cotton Trade
Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Cotton Trade of the United States and the World's Cotton Supply and Trade
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Cotton Trade of Great Britain
Author: James A. Mann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Fashion's Favourite
Author: Beverly Lemire
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The popular fashion for Indian calicos in the seventeenth century and the genesis of the British cotton industry in the eighteenth century reflected new consumer forces at work within Britain. The East India trade encouraged new patterns of domestic demand in Britain, patterns which were not eradicated even with the prohibition of most Indian fabrics in 1721. Parliamentarians and clergy decried the spread of popular fashions that diminished visible social distinctions and undercut traditional manufactures.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The popular fashion for Indian calicos in the seventeenth century and the genesis of the British cotton industry in the eighteenth century reflected new consumer forces at work within Britain. The East India trade encouraged new patterns of domestic demand in Britain, patterns which were not eradicated even with the prohibition of most Indian fabrics in 1721. Parliamentarians and clergy decried the spread of popular fashions that diminished visible social distinctions and undercut traditional manufactures.