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  • 1 - Sugar and Spice

  • Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
  • Book:
    Technology in the Industrial Revolution
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    23 January 2020, pp 22-56

  • 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.