How India clothed the world the world of South Asian textiles, 1500-1850
Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2009, 2009
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| Series: | Global economic history series
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- Colour Plates
- List of Tables
- Prologue
- Preface
- Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 15008211;1850
- Part I
- Region of Exchange: Textiles in the Indian Ocean and Beyond
- Chapter 1
- Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 16008211;1850
- Chapter 2
- Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Chapter 3
- English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa
- Chapter 4
- British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- Chapter 5
- The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 18008211;1850
- Part II
- Region of Production: Textiles in South Asia
- Chapter 6
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 15008211;1800
- Chapter 7
- Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry
- Chapter 8
- From Market-Determined to Coercion-Based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
- Chapter 9
- The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy
- Chapter 10
- Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: Indian Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century
- Part III
- Region of Change: Indian Textiles and European Development
- Chapter 11
- The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons
- Chapter 12
- The French Connection: Indian Cottons and Their Early Modern Technology
- Chapter 13
- Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 15008211;1800
- Chapter 14
- Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade
- Chapter 15
- Historical Issues of Deindustrialization in Nineteenth-Century South India
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index