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.
- Regina Blaszczyk, 'Teacups for Everyone: The Global Porcelain Industry in the Early Modern Era' (PDF)
- Kent Deng, 'Cotton and the Cotton Economy in China, c.600-1900 AD'
- Patrick O'Brien, 'The Eurasian Divergence Debate: Some Methodological Prescriptions and Empirical Research Programmes' (PDF)
- Olivier Raveux, 'The Birth of the Calico Printing in Europe: The Case of Marseilles (1648-1692)' (French - PDF)
- Giorgio Riello, 'Writing a Global History of Cotton Textiles'
- Giorgio Riello, 'The Rise of European Calico Printing and Dyeing and the Influence of Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' (PDF)
- Sakis Gekas, 'The Organization of Indian Textile Technology Before and After The European Arrival' (PDF)
- Negley Harte, 'How Global was Linen in the Early Modern Period?'
- Pat Hudson, 'The Limits of Wool in the 17th and 18th Centuries'
- Debin Ma, 'The Great Silk Exchange: How the World was Connected or Developed'
- Shelagh Vainker, 'Production and Trade of Porcelain in China, 1000-1500' (PDF)
- Peer Vries, 'Orientalism Inverted: or, Good Reasons not to ReOrient the Economic History of the Early Modern World'