The Cotton Industry of Northern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: 1150-1450
Author: Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
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Published: 1972
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Author: Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-07-09
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521230957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the dynamic advances in textile technology and changes in the structure of demand that accompanied the rise, in the late Middle Ages, of an Italian industry geared to mass production of cotton fabrics. The Italian manufacture, based on borrowed techniques and imitations of Islamic cloth, was the earliest large-scale cotton industry in western Europe. It thus marked a pivotal stage in the transmission of the knowledge and use of this textile fibre from the Mediterranean basin to northern Europe. The success of the Italians in creating new markets for a wide variety of products that included pure cotton, as well as mixed fabrics combining cotton with linen, hemp, wool and silk, permanently altered the patterns of taste and consumption in European society. Cotton, in various stages of proceeding, was at the heart of a complex network of communications that linked the north Italian towns to the source of raw materials and to international markets for finished goods. In the developing urban economy of northern Italy, cotton played a role comparable in magnitude to that of wool and shared with the latter certain basic features of early capitalistic organization.
Author: Samuel Kline Cohn
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Published: 1981
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angela Ling Huang
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014-06-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1782976507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they were being used for. Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile names to places, numbers and prices and thus provide an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organisation of trade. Different types and qualities of cloths are discussed and the social implications of their production and import/export considered against a developing background of urbanism and increasing commercial wealth.
Author: Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 1648
ISBN-13: 135166445X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.
Author: Russell King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-27
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1317521102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the time this book was originally published in 1985 Italy was one of Europe’s leading industrial nations. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Italian industry during the 1980s. It introduces Italy’s physical and human resources and outlines the historical development of the industry. It then examines the major sectors of Italian industry and then describes the different regions of the country and the striking differences between them are explored and discussed.
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 0375414142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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"--
Author: Giorgio Riello
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-16
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 1107328225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two hundred years. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe.
Author: Beverly Lemire
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-24
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 1000559505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2010. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Part contains ‘Early Years of Trade and British Response to Indian Cottons to the late 1600s’.