Download or read book Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa written by Kazuo Kobayashi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.
Download or read book Cultivating Knowledge written by Andrew Flachs and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.
Download or read book Studies in Indian Cottons written by Hugh Martin Leake and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Indian Cottons written by Hugh Martin Leake and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Research Growth of the Indian Cotton Textile Industry written by Arvind Kanuga and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Preliminary Study of the Demand for Various Types of Indian Cotton written by Indian Central Cotton Committee and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textile Trades Consumer Cultures and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean written by Pedro Machado and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.
Download or read book The Spinning World written by Giorgio Riello and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. It provides new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development?
Download or read book How India Clothed the World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.
Download or read book The Technological Research Laboratory of the Indian Central Cotton Committee written by Indian Central Cotton Committee and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Indo European Textile History written by John Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technological Research on Cotton in India written by Nanjundayya, C. and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cotton Production written by Khawar Jabran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of the role of cotton in the economy and cotton production around the world This book offers a complete look at the world’s largest fiber crop: cotton. It examines its effect on the global economy—its uses and products, harvesting and processing, as well as the major challenges and their solutions, recent trends, and modern technologies involved in worldwide production of cotton. Cotton Production presents recent developments achieved by major cotton producing regions around the world, including China, India, USA, Pakistan, Turkey and Europe, South America, Central Asia, and Australia. In addition to origin and history, it discusses the recent advances in management practices, as well as the agronomic challenges and the solutions in the major cotton producing areas of the world. Keeping a focus on global context, the book provides sufficient details regarding the management of cotton crops. These details are not limited to the choice of cultivar, soil management, fertilizer and water management, pest control, cotton harvesting, and processing. The first book to cover all aspects of cotton production in a global context Details the role of cotton in the economy, the uses and products of cotton, and its harvesting and processing Discusses the current state of cotton management practices and issues within and around the world’s cotton producing areas Provides insight into the ways to improve cotton productivity in order to keep pace with the growing needs of an increasing population Cotton Production is an essential book for students taking courses in agronomy and cropping systems as well as a reference for agricultural advisors, extension specialists, and professionals throughout the industry.
Download or read book Indian Journal of Textile Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technological Report on Standard Indian Cotton 1977 76 written by COTTON TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (Bombay) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book India Cotton and Textile Industries written by and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
