J. K. J. Thomson

A Distinctive Industrialization

Cotton in Barcelona 1728 1832

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1992, is a study of the development of Barcelona's cotton industry, bridging the 'pre-industrial' and early 'industrial' periods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780521394826
• ISBN-10: 0521394821
• Artikelnr.: 26690249

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations, languages, measures and monetary exchanges
1. Introduction
2. Catalan industry in the 'long term'
3. The establishment of calico-printing in Barcelona
4. Why did merchant capital move into the industry in the 1740s?
5. The development of the industry in the 1750s and 1760s: adaptation to the requirements of 'merchant capital'
6. The industry at its height, 1768¿86, with investment in it as common as in drapers' shops
7. Spinning
8. The crisis of the fábrica: the industry from 1787 to 1832
9. The Bonaplata mill and Catalan industrialization
Bibliography
Index.