Financing Cotton: British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000

by Steven Toms

This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.

The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy. This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178327509X
• ISBN13: 9781783275090
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"