How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850
Biographical note
Giorgio Riello, Ph.D. (2002) in History, University College London, is Associate Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has published on early modern textiles, dress and fashion in Europe and Asia.
Tirthankar Roy, Ph.D. (1989) in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, is a Lecturer of Economic History at London School of Economics. He has published extensively on the economic and social history of modern and early modern South Asia, and has contributed to the textile history of the region in particular.
Tirthankar Roy, Ph.D. (1989) in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, is a Lecturer of Economic History at London School of Economics. He has published extensively on the economic and social history of modern and early modern South Asia, and has contributed to the textile history of the region in particular.
Readership
Those interested in global history, textile history, and the economic history of Asia.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy
I. REGIONS OF EXCHANGE: TEXTILES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND BEYOND
1. Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850, Anthony Reid
2. Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Pedro Machado
3. English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa, Joseph Inikori
4. British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, H. V. Bowen
5. The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850Kaoru Sugihara
II. REGIONS OF PRODUCTION: TEXTILES IN SOUTH ASIA
6. The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800, David Washbrook
7. Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry, Ian Wendt
8. From Market-determined to Coercion-based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Om Prakash
9. The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy, Lakshmi Subrahmanian
10. Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: The Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century, Bishnupriya Gupta
III. REGIONS OF CHANGE: INDIAN TEXTILES AND EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT
11. The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons, Giorgio Riello
12. The French Connection: Indian Cottons and their Early Modern Technology, George Bryan Souza
13. Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800, Beverly Lemire
14. Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade, Maxine Berg
15. Historical Issues of Deindustrialisation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Prasannan Parthasarathi
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy
I. REGIONS OF EXCHANGE: TEXTILES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND BEYOND
1. Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850, Anthony Reid
2. Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Pedro Machado
3. English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa, Joseph Inikori
4. British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, H. V. Bowen
5. The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850Kaoru Sugihara
II. REGIONS OF PRODUCTION: TEXTILES IN SOUTH ASIA
6. The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800, David Washbrook
7. Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry, Ian Wendt
8. From Market-determined to Coercion-based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Om Prakash
9. The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy, Lakshmi Subrahmanian
10. Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: The Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century, Bishnupriya Gupta
III. REGIONS OF CHANGE: INDIAN TEXTILES AND EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT
11. The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons, Giorgio Riello
12. The French Connection: Indian Cottons and their Early Modern Technology, George Bryan Souza
13. Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800, Beverly Lemire
14. Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade, Maxine Berg
15. Historical Issues of Deindustrialisation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Prasannan Parthasarathi
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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