Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand

Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Murat Cizakca, Edmund Herzig, Adrienne D. Hood, Manuel Mino Grijalva, Douglas C. Libby, Kang Chao, William B. Hauser, Joseph J. Brennig; S. Arasaratnam, Kenneth R. Hall, Carolyn Keyes Adenaike, Jan Vansina.

• Contents: Introduction; Ottoman Empire: Incorporation of the Middle East into the European world-economy, Murat Çizakça; Iran: The Iranian raw silk trade and European manufacture in the 17th and 18th centuries, Edmund Herzig; British North America: The gender division of labour in the production of textiles in 18th-century rural Pennsylvania (rethinking the New England model), Adrienne D. Hood; Spanish colonial America and Brazil: ÂProto-industria colonial?, Manuel Miño Grijalva; Reconsidering textile production in late colonial Brazil: new evidence from Minas Gerais, Douglas C. Libby; China: La production textile dans la Chine traditionelle, Kang Chao; Japan: Textiles and trade in Tokugawa Japan, William B. Hauser; India: Textile producers and production in late 17th-century Coromandel, Joseph J. Brennig; Weavers, merchants and company: the handloom industry in southeastern India, 1750-1790, S. Arasaratnam; Southeast Asia: The textile industry in southeast Asia, 1400-1800, Kenneth R. Hall; Africa: West African textiles, 1500-1800, Carolyn Keyes Adenaike; Raffia cloth in west central Africa, 1500-1800, Jan Vansina; Index.

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