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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Machado, Pedro (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fee, Sarah (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Campbell, Gwyn (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: The Ocean's Many Cloth Pathways
• I. Regions of Production
• 2.Textiles and Silver: The Indian Ocean in a Global Frame
• 3. Cloth and Commerce: Understanding Indian Economic History
• 4. Handkerchiefs, Scarves, Sarees and Cotton Printed Fabrics: Japanese Traders and Producers and the Challenges of Global Markets
• 5. Kanga Made in Japan: The Flow from the Eastern to the Western End of the Indian Ocean World
• 6. A Worn Insecurity: Textiles, Industrialization and Colonial Rule in Eritrea during the Long Twentieth Century
• II. Trade, Exchange and Networks of Distribution
• 7. Distributive Networks, Sub-Regional Tastes, and Ethnicity: The Trade in Chinese Textiles in Southeast Asia from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries CE
• 8.Textile Reorientations: The Manufacture and Trade of Cottons in Java c. 1600-1850
• 9."The Dearest Thing on the East African Coast": The Forgotten Nineteenth Century Trade in "Muscat Cloth"
• 10.Converging Trades and New Technologies: The Emergence of Kanga Textiles on the Swahili Coast in the Late Nineteenth Century
• III. Cultures of Consumption
• 11. Warp and Weft: Producing, Trading and Consuming Indian Textiles across the Seas (First-Thirteenth Century CE)
• 12. The Decline of the Malagasy Textile Industry, c. 1800-1895
• 13. Contemporary Geographies of Zanzibari Fashion: Indian Ocean Trade Journeys in the Run-Up to Ramadhan Festivities
• 14. Coda: The Fabric of the Indian Ocean World - Reflections on the Life Cycle of Cloth.