English Versus Indian Cotton Textiles

The Impact Of Imports On Cotton Textile Production In West Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID20044761
AuthorsJoseph E Inikori (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages85-114
Publication date2010-02-19
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHow India Clothed the World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004176539.i-490.32
OpenAlexW4247907608
ISBN9789004176539
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the 'first globalization'. A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy

Ancient history · Archaeology · Capital (architecture) · Circulation (fluid dynamics) · Commodity · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · South asia · Textile · Textile industry · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History

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