The Spinning World. A global history of cotton textiles, 1200-1850

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Essays on the international history of cotton textile manufacture with some references to the UK experience. The volume is a product of the Global Economic History Network , a globally spread network of scholars based at the London School of Economics, 2003-7. Many of the included papers were delivered at a 2005 conference of the Network. The purpose of the present volume is 'to explore the prehistory of cotton and to point to important links with more familiar narratives of cottons in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as revisions of those narratives'. Organised in three parts: 1] 'World areas of cotton textile manufacturing' - largely to 1800 in India, China, Ottoman territories, West Africa, South East Asia; 2] 'Global trade and consumption of cotton textiles' - largely transfers of cotton between different international centres, to mid 19th century; 3] 'Cotton revolutions and their consequences in Europe and Asia' - shifting international balance of industry in 19th century