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. Part contains ‘Early Years of Trade and British Response to Indian Cottons to the late 1600s’.

chapter |5 pages

Weaver (ED.), Somerset Medieval Wills

chapter |20 pages

Early English and Dutch Expeditions

chapter |35 pages

Early English Experience in the Indies

chapter |31 pages

Mun, a Discourse of Trade

chapter |21 pages

The Petition and Remonstrance

chapter |7 pages

The Changing English Textile Market

chapter |3 pages

Dekker, the Honest Whore

chapter |3 pages

The Fann-Makers Grievance

chapter |38 pages

A Treatise Touching the East-Indian Trade

chapter |50 pages

The Dawning Age of Cotton

chapter |28 pages

Child, a Treatise

chapter |3 pages

Five Queries Humbly Tender'd

chapter |10 pages

Child, the Great Honour and Advantage

chapter |27 pages

Journal of the House of Commons

chapter |77 pages

Anti-Cotton Polemics

chapter |9 pages

Prince Butler's Tale