The fibre that changed the world : the cotton industry in international perspective, 1600-1990s

1: THE INDUSTRY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT 1. The Role of Cotton as a World Power, 1780-1990 2. The Role of Merchants as Prime Movers in the Expansion of the Cotton Industry, 1760-1990 3. The Lancashire Cotton Industry, the Royal Navy and the British Empire 4. The International Diffusion of Cotton Manufacturing Technology, 1750-1990s 5. Technological Evolution in Cotton Spinning, 1878-1933 6. International Changes in Cotton Manufacturing Productivity, 1830s-1950s 7. Organization and Management in the Global Cotton Industry, 1800s-1990s 2: THE INDUSTRY IN EUROPE AND THE USA 8. Technology Transfer to the Catalan Cotton Industry: From Calico Printing to the Self-Acting Mule 9. The Birth of the Dutch Cotton Industry, 1830-1840 10. It Could Have Been Worse: The West German Cotton Industry, 1945-1990 11. The Russian Technical Society and British Textile Machinery Imports 12. Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England 3: THE INDUSTRY IN ASIA 13. The Role of the Cotton Industry in the Economic Development of India, 1600-1990 14. Rural Manufacture in China's Cotton Industry, 1890-1990 15. Organizational Changes in the Japanese Cotton Industry during the Inter-war Period: From Inter-Firm-based Organization to Cross-Sector-based Organization 16. The Development of Factory Management in Japan during the Early Stages of Industrialization. The Kanegafuchi Cotton Spinning Company, 1900-1910 17. International Circumstances Surrounding the Post-war Japanese Cotton Textile Industry 18. Concluding Perspectives 19. A Select Bibliography of the History of the Global Cotton Industry