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The early years of the British Industrial Revolution were dominated by mechanical innovations in cotton spinning. They emerged at a time when raw cotton prices were unprecedentedly high and the supply of all-cotton fabrics from India, the world’s principal producer of cotton textiles, had contracted...

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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2022
Online Access:https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-565-3_6