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Riello, Giorgio (2022) Cotton textiles and the Industrial Revolution in a global context. Past & Present, 255 (1). pp. 87-139. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtab016 ISSN 0031-2746.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab016
Abstract
In recent decades, economic historians have revisited the Industrial Revolution in a global context. Their interpretations rely mostly on comparative methods. This article shows instead that there is a profound and significant relationship between industrialization and global exchange, and that consumption of cotton textiles was central to such a relationship. Yet, historians should not consider global trade in the context of separate world regions. The history of cotton textiles reveals the extent to which the worldwide integration of different spaces of commerce and consumption, most especially those of the Atlantic and the Indian oceans, brought advantages to European traders and manufacturers. Taking this view, the article argues that the demand and consumption of textiles were important in determining the scale as well as the shape and specialisms of European textile production. This was not only the demand generated by European consumers — as supported by much of the European ‘consumer revolution’ literature — but also the demand of a wider group of users in the Atlantic region. The reshaping of trade and consumption in turn had important consequences for the production of cotton textiles both in India and in Europe.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Industrial revolution, International trade -- History -- 18th century, International trade -- History -- 19th century, Cotton trade -- India -- History, Cotton trade -- Europe -- History, Cotton textiles -- India -- History, Cotton textiles -- Europe -- History, Industrialization -- History -- 18th century, Industrialization -- History -- 19th century | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Past & Present | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0031-2746 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | May 2022 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 255 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 87-139 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/pastj/gtab016 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Re-use Statement: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Past & Present following peer review. The version of record Giorgio Riello, Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution in a Global Context, Past & Present, 2021;, gtab016 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab016 | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © The Past and Present Society, Oxford, 2021 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 June 2021 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 November 2023 | ||||||||||||
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