Empire of Cotton
Empire of Cotton

Author: Sven Beckert

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0375414142

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"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism, [in which the author explores] how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world"--

Economic Arithmetic
Economic Arithmetic

Author: Stanley H. Palmer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1351781774

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Economic history is the most quantitative branch of history, reflecting the interests and profiting from the techniques and concepts of economics. This essay, first published in 1977, provides an extensive contribution to quantitative historiography by delivering a critical guide to the sources of the numerical data of the period 1700 to 1850. This title will be of interest to students of history, finance and economics.

Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution
Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 2462

ISBN-13: 1351670166

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The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the industrial revolution and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine urban workers and the working class in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, economic growth during the industrial revolution, and the causes of the industrial revolution, with a primary focus on England. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.

Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry
Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry

Author: Philip A. Sykas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-09-22

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 100058139X

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This collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and recycling.