The fibre that changed the world
Subtitle: the cotton industry in international perspective, 1600-1990s
By: edited by Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy.
Contributors: Farnie, D. A.; Jeremy, David J.
Series: Pasold studies in textile history ;; 14
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 614
Subjects: Cotton textile industry -- History.; Cotton manufacture -- History.; Cotton trade -- History.
Other titles: Cotton industry in international perspective, 1600-1990s
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[586]-592) and index.
"Pasold Research Fund"
Table of contents: title: The role of cotton as a world power, 1780-1990 / Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy; title: The role of merchants as prime movers in the expansion of the cotton industry, 1760-1990 / Douglas A. Farnie; title: The Lancashire cotton industry, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1700-1960 / John Singleton; title: The international diffusion of cotton manufacturing technology, 1750-1990s / David J. Jeremy; title: Technological evolution in cotton spinning, 1878-1933 / Gary Saxonhouse and Gavin Wright; title: International changes in cotton-manufacturing productivity, 1830-1950s / David J. Jeremy; title: Organization and management in the global cotton industry, 1800s-1990s / David J. Jeremy; title: Technology transfer to the Catalan cotton industry: from calico printing to the self-acting mule / J. K. J. Thomson; title: The birth of the Dutch cotton industry, 1830-1840 / Alfons van der Kraan; title: It could have been worse: the West German cotton industry, 1945-1990 / Stephan H. Lindner; title: The Russian technical society and British textile machinery imports / Stuart Thompstone; title: Path dependence and the origins of the cotton textile manufacturing in New England / Joshua L. Rosenbloom; title: The role of cotton textiles in the economic development of India, 1600-1990 / Douglas A. Farnie; title: Rural manufacture in China's cotton industry, 1890-1990 / Linda Grove; title: Organizational changes in the Japanese cotton industry during the inter-war period: from inter-firm-based organization to cross-sector-based organization / Takeshi Abe; title: The development of factory management in Japan during the early stages of industrialization: the Kanegafuchi cotton-spinning company before the First World War / Tetsuya Kuwahara; title: International circumstances surrounding the post-war Japanese cotton textile industry / Kaoru Sugihara; title: The role of the cotton industry in economic development / Douglas A. Farnie