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Chris Aspin

32 pp, 43 ills.

The book tells the story of the cotton industry from its spectacular growth during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to its devastating decline in recent years. The impact of the British cotton trade was enormous. Goods mass-produced in busy factories undercut all competition and the industry became the first to make the whole world its market. Using much previously unpublished material, the book traces cotton's birth, growth and downfall. The development of the processes used to transform raw cotton into finished goods is also well illustrated.

Chris Aspin is a historian with a particular interest in textiles. Other titles for Shire by this author are:

The Woollen Industry