ABSTRACT

First 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. Volume 3 Part III contains Establishing a British Cotton Trade, c. 1730-1815.

chapter |3 pages

Monthly Chronicle

chapter |7 pages

The Politics of Wearing Calicoes

chapter |3 pages

Read's Weekly Journal

chapter |14 pages

Beekman Family Papers

chapter |7 pages

Records of Fort St George

chapter |31 pages

Bailey's Northern Directory

chapter |17 pages

Ogden, A Description of Manchester

chapter |11 pages

Smuggled Indian Textiles

chapter |4 pages

Caricatures of Popular Fashion

chapter |10 pages

Dress and Rank

chapter |36 pages

Theft of Clothes

chapter |15 pages

Fashion Publications

chapter |3 pages

Adams, Woman

chapter |5 pages

The Politics of Fustian

chapter |5 pages

Ready-Made Clothing

chapter |10 pages

Innovation in the Textile Trade