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Pomp and poverty : a history of silk in Ireland / Mairead Dunlevy.
Lippincott Library HD9925.I65 D86 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunlevy, Mairead.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Silk industry--Ireland--History.
- Silk industry.
- Silk industry--History.
- History.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 271 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Silk in early Ireland
- Silk imports from the fifteenth to early seventeenth century
- The birth of the Irish industry : the seventeenth century
- Development and encouragement : early eighteenth century
- Training in design for manufacture
- Competition and the Irish silk warehouse c. 1750-1770s
- Poverty and rebellion, 1770-1800
- Politics and the silk trade, 1800-1830s
- Commercial development and design education, 1830s-1860
- Major Irish poplin manufacturers of the mid-nineteenth century
- Decline in a changing world, 1860-1920
- The new states of Ireland.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300170412
- 0300170416
- OCLC:
- 669161862
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