Cotton

1. Introduction: cotton textiles and global history; Part I. The First Cotton Revolution – A Centrifugal System, c.1000–1500: 2. Selling to the world: India and the old cotton system; 3. 'Wool growing on wild trees' – the global reach of cotton; 4. The world's best – cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India; Part II. Learning and Connecting – Making Cottons Global, c.1500–1750: 5. The Indian apprenticeship – Europeans trading in Indian cottons; 6. New consuming habits – how cotton entered European houses and wardrobes; 7. From Asia to America – cottons in the Atlantic world; 8. Learning and substituting – printing textiles in Europe; Part III. The Second Cotton Revolution – A Centripetal System, c.1750–2000: 9. Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World; 10. Competing with India – cotton and European industrialisation; 11. 'The wolf in sheep's clothing' – the potential of cotton; 12. Global outcomes – the West and the new cotton system; 13. Conclusion – from system to system, from divergence to convergence.