Cotton Research Project Conference: Padua, 17-19 November 2005

Papers presented

• Takeshi Abe, "The Development of Japanese Cotton Weaving Industry in Edo Period" (PDF)
• Huw Bowen, "British Exports of Raw Cotton and Piece Goods from India to China in the Eighteenth and early-Nineteenth Centuries" (PDF)
• Suariya Faroqhi, "Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1500-1800: the story of a success that did not last" (PDF)
• James Fichter, "Indian Textiles and American Industrialisation, 1790-1820" (PDF)
• Joseph E. Inikori, "English East India Cotton Textile Competition, 1750-1850: a window into the impact of imports on cotton textile production in West Africa" (PDF)
• Collen E. Krieger, "Guinea Cloth: production and consumption of cotton textiles in West Africa before and during the Atlantic slave trade" (PDF)
• Beverly Lemire, "Shaping Demand, Serving Fashion: exploring the cotton trade between Asia and Europe, c. 1300-1800: A Well-Worn Tale Reconsidered" (PDF)
• Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, "The North Italian Cotton Industry, 1200-1800" (PDF)
• Patrick O'Brien, "The Precocious Mechanization of a Global History: English cotton textiles from Kay (1733) to Roberts (1822)"  (PDF)
• Prasannan Parthasarathi, "Cotton Textile Exports from the Indian Subcontinent, 1680-1780" (PDF)
• Ulrich Pfister, "Cotton Manufacture in Switzerland and Southern Germany in the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: agrarian pre-conditions, family economy and economic institutions" (PDF)
• Om Prakash, "India and the Indian Ocean in Textile Trade" (PDF)
• Giorgio Riello, "The Ecology of Cotton in Early Modern Europe: possibilities and potentials" (PDF)
• George Bryan Souza, "The French Connection: Indian cottons, their early modern technology and diffusion" (PDF)
• John Styles, "What Were Cottons for in the early Industrial Revolution?" (PDF)
• Masayuki Tanimoto, "The Rise and Fall of Cotton Weaving Districts in late-Tokugawa-era 1750-1880: Cotton and the Peasant Economy" (PDF)
• Ian C. Wendt, "400 Years of Decline?  Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry" (PDF)
• Harriet Zurndorfer, "The Resistant Fibre: the pre-modern history of cotton in China" (PDF)