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Cottons Consumption in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Duplessis, Robert S. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | The importance of West African, North American, and Caribbean demand for the emergence of the modern cotton textile industry has long been recognized. Yet in striking contrast to the careful study devoted to the contours of cottons consumption within Europe, remarkably little is known about the reception and appropriation of cottons in the non-European Atlantic, Who bought which cottons? When, where, and how? For what reasons? What trends characterized cottons consumption across time and place? With what other fabrics did they compete? Employing probate inventories, merchant accounts, and other contemporary documents, this essay examines these issues in British and French trading posts in West Africa and North American and Caribbean colonies and their commercial hinterlands from the late seventeenth century through the third quarter of the |
| Starting Page | 227 |
| Ending Page | 227 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/Assets/Documents/Research/GEHN/Helsinki/HELSINKIDuPlessis.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers2/DuPlessis.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/Research/GEHN/HELSINKIDuPlessis.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |