The Heritage of Cotton
Author | : Morris De Camp Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Cotton |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Morris De Camp Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Cotton |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sven Beckert |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385353251 |
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world. 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. 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. The result is a book 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.
Author | : Morris De Camp Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Cotton |
ISBN | : |
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 | : M. D. C. Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Cotton |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Morris De Camp Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Cotton |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Baines |
Publisher | : London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835] |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Cotton |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gene Dattel |
Publisher | : Government Institutes |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2009-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442210192 |
Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these most central social issues. In telling detail Mr. Dattel shows why the vastly underappreciated story of cotton is a key to understanding America's rise to economic power. When cotton production exploded to satiate the nineteenth-century textile industry's enormous appetite, it became the first truly complex global business and thereby a major driving force in U.S. territorial expansion and sectional economic integration. It propelled New York City to commercial preeminence and fostered independent trade between Europe and the United States, providing export capital for the new nation to gain its financial "sea legs" in the world economy. Without slave-produced cotton, the South could never have initiated the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict at home. Mr. Dattel's skillful historical analysis identifies the commercial forces that cotton unleashed and the pervasive nature of racial antipathy it produced. This is a story that has never been told in quite the same way before, related here with the authority of a historian with a profound knowledge of the history of international finance. With 23 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : M D C (Morris de Camp) Crawford |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781014628138 |
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Author | : Morris De Camp CRAWFORD |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |