The Raw Cotton Trade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Souza Melo, Felipe.

Series:

European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series

European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series ; v.52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cotton trade.

Industrial revolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

This book challenges Anglocentric accounts of cotton and industrialization by foregrounding Brazil's central role in supplying European markets, demonstrating how enslaved labor, merchant networks, and imperial policies sustained an international trade crucial to the emergence of industrial capitalism.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyrights Informations

Dedication Page

Contents

General Series Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgements

Tables, Maps, Figures, and Flowcharts

Tables

Maps

Figures

Flowcharts

Abbreviations

Values, Prices, and Conversions

Introduction

1 Goals and Scope of the Book

2 New Perspectives on Raw Cotton

3 The Place of Brazilian Cotton in the Historiography

4 Commodity Chain Analysis and Merchants

5 Sources

6 Book Structure

Introduction to Part 1

1 The Monopoly Trade and How to Get around It

1 Before Cotton Exports

2 The General Trade Company of Grão-Pará and Maranhão and the Beginning of the Cotton Economy

3 Monopoly Companies and the Principal-Agent Problem

4 The Specificity of Pombaline Companies

5 The Configurations of the Colonial Market

6 The GCGPM Operating Plan in Maranhão

7 Illicit Practices within the Monopoly Region

8 The Money Problem

9 The Opportunism of the Administration

10 The End of the Monopoly and Debt Collection

11 Explaining the Company's Problems

12 Conclusion

2 The Golden Age of Cotton Growing in Maranhão and Its Elite

1 Growing Locations and Expansion

2 The High Productivity of Enslaved People

3 Wealthy Planters and Their Trade Links

4 Slave Trade and Slave Traders

5 Commercial and Agricultural Changes after the Opening of Brazilian Ports

6 Conclusion

Introduction to Part 2

3 The Precarious Sugar Expansion and Changes in the Agrarian Structure Brought by Cotton

1 The Sugar Background and the Emergence of Cotton

2 Free Poor Farmers and Their Enslaved People

3 The Unlikely Dispute between Cotton and Sugar and the Geographical Expansion of Cotton Cultivation

4 Cotton and Food Productivity

5 Conclusion.

4 From the Field to the Bale: the Cotton Trade in the Interior of the Northeast

1 The Poverty of the Farmer and the Presence of the Trader and the Middleman

2 Buying the Bale and Shipping It

3 Mercantile Control over Growers

4 Monopolies, Trade Conflicts, and Revolution in Pernambuco

5 Conclusion

5 A Business for Many: Cotton Importers in Lisbon and the Transatlantic Cotton Trade

1 A Multitude of Importers

2 Travelling Agents

3 Companies and State Authorities

4 Lisbon Customs and the Case of Bento José Pacheco

5 Colonial Debts and Money

6 Contraband

7 Conclusion

Introduction to Part 3

6 Export, Exporters, and the Cotton Trade to France and Genoa, the Early Years

1 An Overview of the Cotton Re-Export Trade and Its Merchants

2 Commercial Conditions between Portugal and France

3 Cotton Exports and Navigation until c. 1790

4 The Cotton Trade with Genoa

7 The Troubled French Trade from the 1790s Onwards

1 The Loss of Saint-Domingue and the Revolutionary Wars

2 The End of the Peace of Amiens and the Role of the Ports of Cherbourg, Caen, and Nantes

3 Jacome Ratton and Brazilian Cotton

4 The Continental Blockade and the Commercial Situation after the French Invasion of Portugal

5 The French Cotton Industry

8 The Brazilian Cotton Trade from Portugal to England

1 The Historical Trajectory of the English Factory and Its Institutions

2 The Debates about Pombal and the English

3 From Gold to Cotton and from London to Liverpool

4 From Wine to Cotton

5 Wealthy Tax Farmers and the Cotton Trade

6 Non-English Exporters and Consular Activity

7 Cotton Purchases in Portugal

8 Shifts in the Trade Balance and Smuggling

9 Conclusion

9 The Place of Brazilian Cotton in British Industry: Ports, Commercial Organization, and Traders.

1 London as a Financial and Commercial Center

2 The Cotton Industry in Northern England and in the West of Scotland

3 The Role of Liverpool

4 Cotton Purchases from England

5 The Trade after 1808

Conclusion

Appendix A - Main Cotton Importers in Lisbon (1782-1806)

Appendix B - Main Cotton Exporters from Lisbon (1782-1806)

Appendix C - Ports That Imported Cotton from Lisbon (1782-1806)

Appendix D - Vessels Leaving Lisbon in 1789 and 1801

Appendix E - Members of the English Factory in Portugal between 1788 and 1820

Sources and Bibliography

Manuscript Sources

AHU - Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisboa (Overseas Historical Archive)

ANTT - Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo, Lisboa (Institute of the National Archives - Torre do Tombo)

IEB - Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros

APEJE - Arquivo Público Estadual Jordão Emerenciano

BNP - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

BNE - Biblioteca Nacional de España

NA - the National Archives Kew

Printed Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

Back Cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: Souza Melo, Felipe The Raw Cotton Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and Europe During the Industrial Revolution

ISBN:

9789004757561

OCLC:

1593371820