Book contents
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sugar and Spice
- 2 Myths and Machines
- 3 Cottonopolis
- 4 Power and the People
- 5 The Vertical Mill
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Alternative Examples
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
1 - Sugar and Spice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2020
Book contents
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sugar and Spice
- 2 Myths and Machines
- 3 Cottonopolis
- 4 Power and the People
- 5 The Vertical Mill
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Alternative Examples
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This preindustrial history of capitalism touches on the history of guilds, the domestic systems of cloth production in England, and medieval international commerce as well as the early-modern expansion of Britain into the spice and textile trade of the Indian Ocean. The Atlantic triangular trade used Indian textiles to buy slaves in Africa to work on plantations that originated for the cultivation of sugar. All these elements feed into the Industrial Revolution story in the next chapter, where it is painted as the response of an existing textile industry to global competition.
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- Technology in the Industrial Revolution , pp. 22 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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