The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 by Giorgio Riello, Prasannan Parthasarathi

The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850

Giorgio Riello, Prasannan Parthasarathi

489 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

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Cotton textiles were the first good to achieve a truly global reach. For many centuries muslins and calicoes from the Indian subcontinent were demanded in the trading worlds of the Indian Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean. After 1500, new circui...

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