The conference 'Global Histories of Economic Development: Cotton Textiles and Other Global Industries in the Early Modern Period' was held at the Fondation des Treilles (http://www.les-treilles.com/ssimages/index.html|) - College de Musique, Villecroze, France in March. The programme comprised 12 papers presented over four days.
The conference is associated with session 59 'Cotton Textiles as a Global Industry|' that will be held at the XIV International Economic History congress in Helsinki on 21-25 August 2006. The Treilles meeting was dedicated to the relationship between cotton textiles and other global industries in the early modern period.