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From domestic manufacture to Industrial Revolution : the case of the Rhineland textile districts / Herbert Kisch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kisch, Herbert, 1924- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile industry--Germany--North Rhine-Westphalia--History--18th century.
- Textile industry.
- Cottage industries--Germany--North Rhine-Westphalia--History--18th century.
- Cottage industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An economic, historical, and sociological study of rural textile industries in the Lower Rhineland, from the 16th century up to the age of factory organization in the early 1800's.
- Contents:
- Contents; Prologue: Herbert Kisch, the Man and His Work; 1 Introductory Comments; 2 Variations upon an Eighteenth-Century Theme: Prussian Mercantilism and the Rise of the Krefeld Silk Industry; 3 From Monopoly to Laissez-Faire: The Early Growth of the Wupper Valley Textile Trades; 4 Growth Deterrents of a Medieval Heritage: The Aachen Area Woolen Trades Before 1790; 5 The Impact of the French Revolution on the Lower Rhine Textile Districts; 6 Concluding Reflections; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-326).
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-44012-0
- 0-19-536405-8
- 1-60129-672-X
- OCLC:
- 171570790
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