Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand |
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| Editor:
| Mazzaoui, Maureen Fennell |
| Series title: | An Expanding World: the European Impact on World History, 1450 To 1800 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-86078-509-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $235.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of new markets and responses to competition in the cloth trade, evolving techniques and modes of production, and changes in the patterns of consumption of local and imported cloth in a comparative, cross-cultural context.
This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of new markets and responses to competition in the cloth trade, evolving techniques and modes of production, and changes in the patterns of consumption of local and imported cloth in a comparative, cross-cultural context.