Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean An Ocean of Cloth /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Machado, Pedro (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fee, Sarah (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Campbell, Gwyn (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
• Subjects: Asia-History.; Civilization-History.; World history.; Ethnology-Asia.; Asian History.; Cultural History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Asian Culture.

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) t...