Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa write by Kazuo Kobayashi. This book was released on 2019-06-10. Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.
Cloth in West African History
Cloth in West African History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cloth in West African History write by Colleen E. Kriger. This book was released on 2006. Cloth in West African History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa's long involvement in trading contacts with Muslim societies and with Europe. Cloth in West African History thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of the region and on the local, regional, and global processes that shaped it. A variety of readers will find its account and insights into the African past and culture valuable, and will appreciate the connections made between the local concerns of small-scale weavers in African villages, the emergence of an indigenous textile industry, and its integration into international networks.
The Spinning World
The Spinning World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spinning World write by Giorgio Riello. This book was released on 2011-09-22. The Spinning World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. It provides new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development?
How India Clothed the World
How India Clothed the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How India Clothed the World write by . This book was released on 2009-07-31. How India Clothed the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
African Textiles
African Textiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Textiles write by John Picton. This book was released on 1989-10-31. African Textiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In recent years there has been a growing interest in the traditional textiles of non-Western societies and in these societies themselves. Ten years ago, when the first edition of this book was published, it was virtually the only general survey of textile production and use in Africa, but since then a growing number of local studies have been published. This new edition takes account of these, and of the authors' subsequent fieldwork in Nigeria and Madagascar, to produce an up-dated survey of the production process from the preparation of the raw materials to the embellishment of the woven cloth by dyeing, appliqué, embroidery, etc. The text is illustrated with a new selection of photographs drawing both on the superb collections of the British museum and on field photographs showing details of how the cloth is made and worn. In Africa textiles are used not only as everyday clothing but for special events, sometimes with ritual meanings, and to decorate houses and shrines as well as people. This book looks beyond the design and making of African cloth to its social, political, and religious significance." -- Cover page 4.
