The Cotton And Commerce Of India
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Author | : Kazuo Kobayashi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 303018675X |
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.
Author | : John Chapman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Cotton growing and manufacture |
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Author | : Giorgio Riello |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2015-04-16 |
Genre | : 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 | : Tirthankar Roy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316953262 |
In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history shows that capital was relatively expensive. How, then, did capitalism flourish in the region? How did companies and entrepreneurs deal with the shortage of key resources? Has there been a common pattern in responses to these issues over the centuries? Through detailed case studies of firms, entrepreneurs, and business commodities, Tirthankar Roy answers these questions. Roy bridges the approaches of business and economic history, illustrating the development of a distinctive regional capitalism. On each occasion of growth, connections with the global economy helped firms and entrepreneurs better manage risks. Making these deep connections between India's economic past and present shows why history matters in its remaking of capitalism today.
Author | : Amy Elizabeth Bogansky |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588394964 |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.
Author | : Pedro Machado |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2018-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319582658 |
This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.
Author | : Beverly Lemire |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Sven Beckert |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : 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 | : Somerset Playne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : B. R. Tomlinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107021189 |
A unique examination of the development of the modern Indian economy over the past 150 years.