Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand
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Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand

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Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781351895576
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Index

Please note: Page numbers which appear in italics are references to tables or illustrations
Abbas I, shah of Iran, 36–8
Abbott, Edith, historian, 45
Acatzingo, textile production in, 85
Africa, see West Africa
agents, in Southeast Asian textile industry, 219
agriculture
combined with textile production: in Brazil, 107, 115; in India, 180; in North America, 48, 53, 56, 60; and proto-industrialization, 72–4, 82–4, 86, 88
commercial development of: in Iran, 43; in New Spain, 73–4, 77
Aleppo
silk industry in, 28–9, 38; volume of, 32
textile industry in, 72, 12–15, 17, 17
Aliada, textile trade in, 257
alum works, in Erzurum, 15
alvará, Portuguese ban on Brazilian textile industry, 97–8, 113
America(s)/New World
cotton in, and textile triangle trade, 257–8
importation of Chinese textiles, 131
Amid (Diyarbakir), textile industry in, 14, 14, 17
Anatolia
cotton in, cost of, 7
silk industry in, 8, 8–9
Andaya, Barbara Watson, historian, 217–18, 221–2, 241–2
Andes, textile production in, 82–3
Angola, currency of, 278–9
Anhui, textile industry in, 128
Ankara
textile industry in, 19–20
wool industry in, 10, 15
apprenticeship, in textile industry, 50–1, 54–5
Arany, textile industry in, 182
Arcot, textile industry in, 180–1
Ardrah, dyes in, 253
Armenian merchants, and silk trade, 31, 36–8, 42
artisans, in Han China, 123
Asia, Industrial Revolution and, 77
Asiatic mode of production, Marx on, 135–6
Astrakhan, and silk trade, 29
Atlas cloth, 13
Aymard, M., historian, 39–40
Bagnall, William, historian, 45
Bailey, David, weaver, 58
Bajío, textile production in, 84, 89–90
Balkan wool, cost of, 7
Ballard, Martha, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History 1450–1800
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. General Editor’s Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. OTTOMAN EMPIRE
  9. IRAN
  10. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
  11. SPANISH COLONIAL AMERICA AND BRAZIL
  12. CHINA
  13. JAPAN
  14. INDIA
  15. SOUTHEAST ASIA
  16. AFRICA
  17. Index

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