Cotton
Series: Textiles that Changed the World;
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Product details:
- Publisher Berg Publishers
- Date of Publication 1 March 2011
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781845202996
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 244x189x19 mm
- Weight 599 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 b/w illustrations, 25 colour 0
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Short description:
Cotton has literally changed the world. This book explores the fascinating history and present day practices associated with cotton.
MoreLong description:
This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and West, of technological and industrial revolution, social modernization, colonialism and slavery. Cotton's history mirrors profound global transformations. And cotton remains one of the most significant mass commodities today.
Cotton's track record on labor conditions in factories and plantations has tarnished its history and reputation, even as cotton clothes became the hallmark of modern industrialized society. Cotton expressed popular fashions and popular politics in dynamic ways. Yet cottons also take other cultural forms and are part of vibrant craft traditions in many parts of the world. This book explores the history, impact and ongoing life of this hugely influential textile.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Maps and Illustrations
1. Introduction
2. Bound Up with Cotton: World Markets, Global Trade and Cotton History
3. Fashion's Favourite: The Social Politics of Cotton and the Democratisation of Style, c.1600-1820
4. Cottage, Mill, Factory, Plantation: the Industrialisation of Cotton and the New World Order, c.1400-1860
5. Crafting Comfort, Crafting Community: Cotton and the Rise of Quilt Culture in the West, c.1500-1940
6. Afterword: A World Refashioned
Selected Bibliography
Index
