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the cotton industry in international perspective, 1600-1990s

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Cover of: FIBRE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: THE COTTON INDUSTRY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, 1600-1990S; ED. BY DOUGLAS A. FARNIE.

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Table of Contents

The role of cotton as a world power, 1780-1990 / Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy
The role of merchants as prime movers in the expansion of the cotton industry, 1760-1990 / Douglas A. Farnie
The Lancashire cotton industry, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1700-1960 / John Singleton
The international diffusion of cotton manufacturing technology, 1750-1990s / David J. Jeremy
Technological evolution in cotton spinning, 1878-1933 / Gary Saxonhouse and Gavin Wright
International changes in cotton-manufacturing productivity, 1830-1950s / David J. Jeremy
Organization and management in the global cotton industry, 1800s-1990s / David J. Jeremy
Technology transfer to the Catalan cotton industry: from calico printing to the self-acting mule / J. K. J. Thomson
The birth of the Dutch cotton industry, 1830-1840 / Alfons van der Kraan
It could have been worse: the West German cotton industry, 1945-1990 / Stephan H. Lindner
The Russian technical society and British textile machinery imports / Stuart Thompstone
Path dependence and the origins of the cotton textile manufacturing in New England / Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The role of cotton textiles in the economic development of India, 1600-1990 / Douglas A. Farnie
Rural manufacture in China's cotton industry, 1890-1990 / Linda Grove
Organizational changes in the Japanese cotton industry during the inter-war period: from inter-firm-based organization to cross-sector-based organization / Takeshi Abe
The development of factory management in Japan during the early stages of industrialization: the Kanegafuchi cotton-spinning company before the First World War / Tetsuya Kuwahara
International circumstances surrounding the post-war Japanese cotton textile industry / Kaoru Sugihara
The role of the cotton industry in economic development / Douglas A. Farnie

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Includes bibliographical references (p.[586]-592) and index.
"Pasold Research Fund"

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Oxford, New York
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Pasold studies in textile history ;, 14
Other Titles
Cotton industry in international perspective, 1600-1990s

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Dewey Decimal Class
338.476772109
Library of Congress
HD9870.5 .F53 2004, HD9870.5

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xxiv, 614 p. :
Number of pages
614

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OL3325753M
ISBN 10
0199255660
LCCN
2004299351
OCLC/WorldCat
55908601
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5504960
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