King Cotton

Professor Douglas Farnie made a lasting impression on everybody who was fortunate enough to meet him. His enthusiasm for, and his encyclopaedic knowledge of, Lancashire's industrial and regional history (and specifically the region's hallmark, the cotton textile industry) was unprecedented. As the pre-eminent historian of the Lancashire cotton industry, his best known work was The English Cotton Industry and the World Market, 1815–1896 (1979; rev. ante, xcv [1980], 635–6). This comprised an empirical examination of the industry's search for foreign markets and its internal structural constraints, while also introducing new topics to the field, including the problems attributable to the co-operative model of ownership and the rise and fall of vertically integrated firms. In addition to his exemplary scholarship, Farnie will also be remembered for the support and kindness he demonstrated to both students and fellow researchers. Many of us were privileged enough to receive at least one file card of information which either answered a specific question or provided material he thought might be helpful for our research. It is therefore only fitting that a Festschrift be written to honour one of the most acclaimed economic historians in recent years, who influenced scholars around the world and whose scholarship will continue to influence historians for years to come. And, to that purpose, this book fulfils its aims

Economic history · Enthusiasm · Honour · Political science · Scholarship · Tribute · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

• Canals, rivers, and the industrial city

  Open Access•Peter Maw, Terry Wyke et al.•The Economic History Review•2012

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• The economics of abundance

  Open Access•Theo Balderston•The Economic History Review•2010

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• International competition in the first wave of globalization

  Open Access•Concepción Betrán, Michael Huberman•The Economic History Review•2016

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• Producer co-operatives and economic efficiency

  Steven Toms, Steven A Toms•Business History•2012

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• The strategies of the Spanish cotton textile companies before the Civil War

  Fco Javier Fernandez-Roca•Business History•2012

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• A Common Brotherhood for Their Mutual Benefit

  Open Access•Jonathan E Robins•Enterprise & Society•2015

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• Workplace Health and Gender among Cotton Workers in America and Britain, c.1880s–1940s

  Open Access•Janet Greenlees•International Review of Social…•2016

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