Textile trades, consumer cultures, and the material worlds of the Indian Ocean : an ocean of cloth / Pedro Machado, Sarah Fee, Gwyn Campbell, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Machado, Pedro, editor.

Fee, Sarah, editor.

Campbell, Gwyn, 1952- editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing trade--Indian Ocean.

Clothing trade.

Textile fabrics--Indian Ocean.

Textile fabrics.

Textile industry--Indian Ocean.

Textile industry.

Costume--Indian Ocean.

Costume.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Contents:

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Maps; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Oceanâ#x80;#x99;s Many Cloth Pathways; Bibliography; Part I Regions of Production; Chapter 2 Textiles and Silver: The Indian Ocean in a Global Frame; Placing the Indian Ocean in a Global Frame; European Extensions: Silver, Industrial Cloth and Technological Innovation; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Reorientations; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 Cloth and Commerce: Understanding Indian Economic History

Weavers in Early Colonial India: Historiographical IssuesProtest and Politics: The Case of the Surat Weavers; Rioting in Surat: Weavers in Rearguard Action; Towards a New System of Procurement: Limits and Possibilities; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 Handkerchiefs, Scarves, Sarees and Cotton Printed Fabrics: Japanese Traders and Producers and the Challenges of Global Markets; The Historical Context and the Beginning of the Export of Japanese Printed Fabrics for the International Market; The Sharp Increase in the Export of Silk Handkerchiefs and Scarves from Japan in the Interwar Period

The Export of Japanese Scarves and Printed Cotton Fabrics in the Postwar PeriodCotton Printed Fabrics Exported to African Markets; The Export of â#x80;#x98;Japan Sarees (Japanese Sarees)â#x80;#x99;; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Kanga Made in Japan: The Flow from the Eastern to the Western End of the Indian Ocean World; Introduction; The Birth of Kanga on the East African Coast and the Development of the Cotton Textile Industry in the Osaka Region; The East African Boom in the 1920s and East Africa Through Japanese Eyes; Japanese Products in East Africa Before World War II

H. Nishizawa ShÅ#x8D;ten and the Invention of Japanese KangaBusiness, Markets, Restrictions: The Postwar Experience of Selling Japanese Kanga; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 A Worn Insecurity: Textilesâ#x80;#x9A; Industrialization and Colonial Rule in Eritrea During the Long Twentieth Century; Eritrea and the Global Textile Trade; Developing Eritrea as a Supplier of Raw Cotton for the Italian Textile Industry; The Failed Industrialization of Textile Production in Eritrea; Conclusion; Bibliography of Published Material; Part II Trade, Exchange and Networks of Distribution

Chapter 7 Distributive Networks, Sub-Regional Tastes and Ethnicity: The Trade in Chinese Textiles in Southeast Asia from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries CEIntroduction; Silk Cloths as Status Items in Southeast Asia; Silks as Trade Items in the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries; Diversification of the Silk Trade in the Fourteenth Century; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 Textile Reorientations: The Manufacture and Trade of Cottons in Java c. 1600â#x80;#x93;1850; Introduction; Java Textile Traditions; Java Textile Culture C. 1800

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 19, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783319582658

3319582658

Publisher Number:

99991487776

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