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136 | ASIAN REVIEW OF WORLD HISTORIES 2:1 (JANUARY 2014) By Giorgio RIELLO Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 407 pp. ISBN: 978-1107000223 (Hardback) ISBN: 978-0521166706 (Paperback) Reviewed by Kazuo KOBAYASHI London School of Economics, UK doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2014.2.1.136 Some commodities can be used as a lens through which we can ap- preciate how the modern economy and our material life have been shaped over the long term. Cotton and cotton textiles provide such as case and have been one of the well-established topics which con- tinue to grab attention among historians. Following on from his co- edited essay collections on cotton textiles, The Spinning World (with Prasannan Parthasarathi, Oxford University Press, 2009) and How India Clothed the World (with Tirthankar Roy, Brill, 2009), Giorgio Riello’s ambitious book Cotton has marked an important step in the historiography of global economic history, with three key words that characterise each process of the changes in ‘global system’: centrifu- gal, learning, and centripetal. A classic study on the Lancashire cotton industry is Alfred P. Wadsworth and Julia de Lacy Mann’s The Cotton Trade and Indus- trial Lancashire 1600-1780 (Manchester University Press, 1931). Riel- lo differentiates his Cotton from their work in that while Wadsworth
Asian Review of World Histories – Brill
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