Financing cotton : British industrial growth and decline 1780-2000 /
Steven Toms.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history ; 17 .
- People, markets, goods ; 17. .
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This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.