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The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 1650-2000
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ISBN: 9780754664284 0754664287 9786612462764 1849728232 0754695913 1282462768 1317044290 1315612682 9780754695912 9781315612683 9781317044277 9781317044284 1317044282 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This collection offers the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350 years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton production, and the global picture from before the Industrial Revolution through to the twentieth century. As well as offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the history of a particular country's textile industry, this project provides a unique resource for international comparison. By providing standardised global studies of key textile industries and workers, both geographically and thematically


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Europeans globalizing : mapping, exploiting, exchanging
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ISBN: 9780230279636 0230279635 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Palgrave Macmillan

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Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn transformed Europeans. Europeans mapped, they exploited, and they exchanged - their interactions ranged from technological and biological genocide to treaties of cooperation and the construction of elaborate colonial infrastructures. Quite aside from the enormous variety of political settings, cultures and colonial programs, interrelations created dependencies on both sides. Cultural transfers were rarely unidirectional, and often a kind of Pidgin-knowledge emerged, a hybrid fusion of European and local knowledge and skills. As observers have rightly pointed out, Europe played both the role of 'Prometheus unbound' and the 'Sorcerer's apprentice'. --

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