Sugar and Spice

Barbara Hahn

doi:10.1017/9781316900864.002

1 - Sugar and Spice

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2020

Barbara Hahn

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Barbara Hahn: Affiliation:
Texas Tech University

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This preindustrial history of capitalism touches on the history of guilds, the domestic systems of cloth production in England, and medieval international commerce as well as the early-modern expansion of Britain into the spice and textile trade of the Indian Ocean. The Atlantic triangular trade used Indian textiles to buy slaves in Africa to work on plantations that originated for the cultivation of sugar. All these elements feed into the Industrial Revolution story in the next chapter, where it is painted as the response of an existing textile industry to global competition.

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Domestic Production Guilds Proto-Industrialization Putting-Out Mercantilism Imperialism Colonialism British Empire Slave Trade calico

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Information: Technology in the Industrial Revolution , pp. 22 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316900864.002 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2020

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