TY - BOOK AU - Riello,Giorgio AU - Roy,Tirthankar TI - How India clothed the world: the world of South Asian textiles, 1500-1850 T2 - Global economic history series, SN - 9789047429975 AV - TS1403 .H688 2009eb PY - 2009/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Textile fabrics KW - India KW - History KW - Textile industry KW - Textilindustrie KW - Indien KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Colour Plates -- List of Tables -- Prologue -- Preface -- Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 15008211;1850 -- Part I -- Region of Exchange: Textiles in the Indian Ocean and Beyond -- Chapter 1 -- Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 16008211;1850 -- Chapter 2 -- Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Chapter 3 -- English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa -- Chapter 4 -- British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- Chapter 5 -- The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 18008211;1850 -- Part II -- Region of Production: Textiles in South Asia -- Chapter 6 -- The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 15008211;1800 -- Chapter 7 -- Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry -- Chapter 8 -- From Market-Determined to Coercion-Based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal -- Chapter 9 -- The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy -- Chapter 10 -- Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: Indian Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century -- Part III -- Region of Change: Indian Textiles and European Development -- Chapter 11 -- The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons -- Chapter 12 -- The French Connection: Indian Cottons and Their Early Modern Technology -- Chapter 13 -- Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 15008211;1800 -- Chapter 14 -- Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade -- Chapter 15 -- Historical Issues of Deindustrialization in Nineteenth-Century South India -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index N2 - Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwskd ER -