Toms, Steven,

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.

9781787448483 (ebook)


Cotton textile industry--History.--Great Britain
Industries--History.--Great Britain
Finance--History.--Great Britain

HD9881.5 / .T66 2020

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