Cotton

Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the Department of History and Classics, and the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta.

• Acknowledgements List of Maps and Illustrations1. 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 BibliographyIndex

For lovers of the textile traditions in American material culture, Lemire's book expands understanding of their global influences. For those whose appreciation of fashion is limited to aesthetics, the book demonstrates the significance of the cotton textile and fashion industries in the world economy from the medieval era to the present.