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The Lancashire cotton industry and its rivals : international competition in cotton goods in the late nineteenth century : Britain versus India, China, and Japan /
The study based on his original research, undertaken in Oxford and subsequently in Japan, covers the important nexus established between Japan and the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century with the export of cotton textiles (of higher quality) from Britain to Asia. This historical link between ke...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tokyo :
International House of Japan,
2018.
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Series: | LTCB international library selection ;
no. 10. |
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Table of Contents:
- Types of raw cotton and their evolution. The eastward and westward spread of cotton cultivation
- The spread of cotton textiles to the West : India's role in the industrial revolution
- Specialisation in cotton goods in Far Eastern markets, 1870-1900. British expansion into Asian markets
- Comparison of prices between British and Japanese cotton cloths
- Quality differences between cotton goods
- Quality differences in raw cotton
- Conclusion
- Epilogue. Two modes of 'escape-from-Asia'
- Appendices. British exports of cotton goods to India, China, and Japan
- Imports of cotton yarn into British India, 1871-1910
- The revision of the Japanese commercial tariff on cotton manufactures in 1866
- Distribution of English shirtings and yarns to Japanese
- Dimensions of samples of Japanese cotton piece goods forwarded in the commercial report on the cotton trade and manufactures of Japan
- Competition in the Far Eastern yarn markets between Lancashire and Bombay cotton spinning industries
- Raw cotton imported into and exported from India.