1st Edition

The British Cotton Trade, 1660-1815 Vol 3

By Beverly Lemire Copyright 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.

    Introduction to Part III, Political Manoeuvring and Consumer Politics Monthly Chronicle (1729) The Politics of Wearing Calicoes : Newspaper Extracts ( 1730-45) Smuggled Goods and the Irregular Circulation of Calicoes, Newspaper Extracts (1724-61) Examples of Smuggled Calicoes (1714-26) Tensions Surrounding British Manufacture of Printed Goods, The Case of the Importers of Cotton Wool, and the Manufacturers thereof into Fustian, and of the Traders in that Manufacture ([1735?]) The Case of the Worsted and Silk Manufacturers ( [ 1735 ?] ) Politics and Permission for the Linen/Cotton Trade: Journal of the House Of Commons (1735-8) Reads Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer ( 1736) A Trade Developing, Fashion: Popular and Contested, Industrialization, Local Consumption and World Trade. /Part Contents