Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand / Edition 1

by Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui

Overview

This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of new markets and responses to competition in the cloth trade, evolving techniques and modes of production, and changes in the patterns of consumption of local and imported cloth in a comparative, cross-cultural context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780860785095
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/16/1998
Series:	An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Ottoman Empire: Incorporation of the Middle East into the European world-economy, Murat Çizakça; Iran: The Iranian raw silk trade and European manufacture in the 17th and 18th centuries, Edmund Herzig; British North America: The gender division of labour in the production of textiles in 18th-century rural Pennsylvania (rethinking the New England model), Adrienne D. Hood; Spanish colonial America and Brazil: Proto-industria colonial?, Manuel Miño Grijalva; Reconsidering textile production in late colonial Brazil: new evidence from Minas Gerais, Douglas C. Libby; China: La production textile dans la Chine traditionelle, Kang Chao; Japan: Textiles and trade in Tokugawa Japan, William B. Hauser; India: Textile producers and production in late 17th-century Coromandel, Joseph J. Brennig; Weavers, merchants and company: the handloom industry in southeastern India, 1750-1790, S. Arasaratnam; Southeast Asia: The textile industry in southeast Asia, 1400-1800, Kenneth R. Hall; Africa: West African textiles, 1500-1800, Carolyn Keyes Adenaike; Raffia cloth in west central Africa, 1500-1800, Jan Vansina; Index.

Editorial Reviews

Details the growth and decline of widely divergent systems of textile production occurring within distinct political and social contexts in the early-modern global economy. Shows how institutions and structural factors conditioned responses of traditional craft-based cloth producers to new technological and competitive challenges in the modern era, giving rise to contrasting experiences and diverse historical outcomes in regions of the world economy. Contains sections on the Ottoman Empire, Iran, British North America, Spanish colonial America and Brazil, China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1 '...a collection of selected essays...of a quite uniformly high quality. The editor has provided an excellent introduction, surveying the broad trends in the historiography of the topic and alerting readers to controversies and conflicting interpretations...the book remains a valuable addition to the literature and provides an impressive summary of current scholarship on the topic.' Economic History Review, Vol. LII, No. 4

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