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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.
Textiles and the Medieval Economy
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa
Textiles and Textile Production in Europe
Textile Economies
Global History of Silk
Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900
Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300-1400
Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times
Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change
Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean
US Textile Production in Historical Perspective
Consumption and the World of Goods