by Sven Beckert
Bight of Benin
Bight of Biafra
black codes
Black Forest, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1
Blake, William
blankets, cotton
bobbins, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 13.1
boll weevils
Bolton
Bombay, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2
explosive growth of
port of, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1
Bombay Chamber of Commerce, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Bombay Cotton Department
Bombay Millowners’ Association, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6
Bombay Plan of 1944
Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company
Bombay Textile Labor Union
Boots Cotton Mills Museum
Boston, Mass., itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Boston Associates, 6.1, 6.2
bow
Bowring, John
Brady, Mathew, 9.1
Braudel, Fernand
Brazil, itr.1, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1
cotton industry and exports of, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Minas Gerais
Quebra Quilos revolt in
slavery in
Brecht, Bertolt
Bremen Chamber of Commerce
Bremer Handelsblatt, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society
British Board of Trade, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 13.1
British Commerce and Industries Department, 11.1, 11.2
British Cotton Growing Association, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1
British East India Company, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1
coercion and punishment of workers by
Commercial Department of
cotton policies of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
British Foreign Office, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1
British Honduras
British Packet and Argentine News
British Parliament, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1
House of Commons in, 3.1, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2
House of Lords in
British Raw Cotton Commission
British Royal Engineers
British Royal Society of the Arts
British Select Committee
British Spinners Ltd.
brokers, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 11.1
Bronze Age, 1.1, 1.2
Brown, Alexander, 8.1, 8.2
Brown, Francis Carnac
Brown, James, 8.1, 8.2
Brown, John
Brown, Moses, 6.1, 6.2
Brown, William, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Brown Brothers
Brown family, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 11.1
Bruce, Frederick William Adolphus
Brügelmann, Johann Gottfried, 6.1, 6.2
Bruges
Buddhism
Buenos Aires, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Burke, John Masterson
Burkina Faso
Burks, Allen, 12.1, 12.2
Burling, Walter
Burma, 10.1, 11.1
Busk, J. R.
Cairo, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1, 13.1
Cairo Egyptian Cotton Mills Limited
Cajamarca
Calcutta, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1
California
Calloway, James N., 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Cal Rosal, 14.1
Cambay
camels, itr.1, 1.1, 12.1, 12.2
Canada, 8.1, 9.1
Cape of Good Hope
capitalism, itr.1, itr.2, 11.1
birth of
capital access and investment in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
contemporary life founded on
cotton
global, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
history of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
industrial, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
laissez-faire
mercantile
reinvention of
revolution of, 14.1, 14.2
shifting structure of
state dependence and, 3.1, 7.1
violence and coercion in, itr.1, 2.1
war, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1
carding engines
Cardroom Workers and Weavers
Cardwell & Birle
Caribbean Sea, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Carrefour, 14.1, 14.2
Cartagena
Cartwright, Edmund
Cassavettit family
Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Caucasus
Census Bureau, U.S.
Central America, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Central Asian Trading Association
Central Association for the Recognition of the Confederate States
Chapman, John
Charleston, S.C., 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Chavan, Y. B., 13.1
Cheap Cotton by Free Labor (Atkinson)
Chefoo Convention of 1877
chemical industry
Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce
Ch’en Chih
Chenk Kuan-ying
Cherokee Indians
Chhotalal, Ranchhodlal, 13.1, 13.2
Chiang Kai-shek
Chicago, Ill., 10.1, 14.1
Chickasaw Indians
children, see labor, child
China, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, itr.5, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 8.1
Communist revolution in
cotton imports of, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
cotton industry of, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1
family system of
Hebei province
Kwangtung province
Nantong district of
Ning-Po district
silk industry of
trade unions in
U.S. relations with
China, People’s Republic of, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
cotton industry of, 14.1, 14.2
propaganda of, 14.1
repression of labor unions in
Chinese Communist Party
Choctaw Indians, 5.1, 5.2
Chong Su
Civil War, U.S., itr.1, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2
battles of
cotton industry impacted by, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
outbreak of, 9.1, 9.2
slavery issue in, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
social effects of
Clarendon, Earl of
Clay, Joseph
Clayton, Will
clothing
cotton, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1
of fur and skins, 1.1, 1.2
history of
linen, 1.1, 2.1
manufacture of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
modesty in, 1.1, 1.2
ramie
silk
social status displayed through, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
wool, 1.1, 2.1
coal mines, itr.1, 7.1
Cobden, Richard
cochineal
coffee
Collection of Specimens and Illustrations of the Textile Manufacturers of India (Second Series) (Watson)
colonialism, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Columbia University
Columbus, Christopher, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
Comanche Indians
Combination Acts (1799; 1880)
Comité Mulhousien de l’Association pour la
Défense du Travail National
Commerce Department, U.S., 13.1, 13.2
Commercial and Financial Chronicle
Commission to Develop Russian Cotton Growing
Compagnie des Indes Française, 2.1, 2.2
Compañía Agricola, Industrial y Colonizadora del Tlahualilo
computer revolution
Confederate Army
Confederate States of America, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 13.1
defeat of, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
European diplomacy of
international recognition of, 9.1, nts.1
Union blockade of, 9.1, 9.2
see also Civil War, U.S.
Congress, U.S., 5.1, 10.1, 11.1
see also Senate, U.S.
Congress of the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Associations
Congress of Vienna
Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana Bank
Constantinople, 11.1
Constitution, U.S.
Cooke, Rob
corn, itr.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1
Corn Laws
Coromandel, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2
Cortés, Hernán, 1.1, 2.1
Cossimbazar, 2.1, 2.2
cotton
adulteration of
bales of, itr.1, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1
combing out of
demand for, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 10.1
dust from, 3.1, 13.1
fluffy white fiber of, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2
global consumption of, 13.1
inspection of, 8.1, 14.1
literature of, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2
manufacture of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, itr.5, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 7.1
multiple uses and ubiquity of, itr.1, 1.1
prices of, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
raw, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
sale of, itr.1, 1.1, 8.1
transport of, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 10.1
variability, grade and standards of, 8.1, 11.1
weight of, 11.1, nts.1
Cotton and Commerce of India, Considered in Relation to the Interests of Great Britain, The
Cotton Bill of 1953
cotton bolls, 3.1, 5.1
picking of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 14.1
cotton cloth
advertising of
ancient fragments of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
body protection of
British, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
calico, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 11.1
chintz, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
coloring of, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
durability of
Hamaca
Indian, 11.1, 11.2
indiennes, itr.1, 2.1
inspection of
jackonet
muslin, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
prices of, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1
printing of
production of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 3.1, 5.1
as proto-money, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
quality of, 1.1, 2.1
religious offerings of
sale of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
transport of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1
uniforms of
washing of, itr.1, 1.1
wearing of, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1
weaving of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 11.1, 12.1
as “woven wind,” itr.1, 1.1
Cotton Cultivation Expansion Plan of 1912
cotton gins, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
invention of, 5.1, 5.2
roller, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
cotton industry, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 3.1, 7.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
clashes of power in
competition in, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
connections in
constant reshuffling of
decline of, itr.1, 14.1
emergence of Europe in, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1
espionage in
European domination of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.1, itr.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 14.1
expansion of, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1
extension of credit in, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1
global reach of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.1, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
global reconstruction of
history of
household production in, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
impact of American Civil War on, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
labor-intensive stages of, itr.1, 1.1
mass production in, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
modern world ushered in by, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, itr.5
monopolies in
nationalization in
postslavery, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
pre-Columbian
profits in, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 13.1
protectionism in, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
regulation of
shifting regions of, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Southern origins and return of, itr.1, 13.1
spatial arrangements in, 3.1, 4.1
state backing for, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
technology of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
U.S. domination of, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1
workshops in, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1
worldwide employment in
cotton mills, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 13.1
closing of, itr.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1
working conditions in, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
cotton oil, itr.1, 10.1
Cotton Plant (Hobby)
cotton plants
blooming of
capsules of, itr.1, 1.1
domestication of, 1.1, 1.2
as “gossypium,”
heartiness of
ideal conditions for, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
irrigation of
leaves, petioles and flowers of
morphological plasticity of
planting and growing of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2
varieties of, itr.1, 1.1
as “vegetable lambs,” 1.1, 1.2
“cotton populism,”
cottonseed, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1, 9.2
distribution of, 12.1, 12.2
planting of
removal of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1
selection of
varieties of
Cotton Standards Act (1923)
Cotton Supply Association, 9.1, 9.2
Cotton Supply of the United States of America, The (McHenry)
Cotton Supply Reporter, itr.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
cotton thread, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2
homespun, itr.1, 3.1
spinning of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 11.1
see also yarn
Courier du Havre
Coxe, Tench, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 13.1
craft guilds
crafts, itr.1, 1.1
Creek Indians, 5.1, 12.1
Creighton, Robert
Crimmitschau
Crompton, Samuel, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2
Crowell, R. H.
Crusades, 1.1, 1.2
Cuba, 5.1, 6.1
Cummings, John
Curley, James Michael
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Dacca, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 5.1, 11.1
Dalhousie, Lord
Dallas, Hugo
Dallas, Tex., 11.1, 12.1
Dansk Ostindiske Kompagni
Danson, John T.
Danube River
Davar, Cowasji Nanabhoy
Dayton, William L.
De Bow’s Review, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
debt, itr.1, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1
Defoe, Daniel
Defoe’s Review
Degas, Edgar, itr.1
deindustrialization, 11.1, 12.1
de Jersey
Delta and Pine Land Company
Denmark, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Denniss, E. R. Bartley
Depression, Great, 13.1, 14.1
Desai, Ambalal Sakarlal, 13.1, 13.2
Deutsche Orient Bank
Deutsche Togogesellschaft
Deutsche Volkswirthschaftliche Correspondenz
Dharwar Collectorate Cotton Gin Factory
D. H. Wätjen & Co.
Dictionnaire universel de la géographie commerçante
Diligent
distaffs, itr.1, 1.1
Dixon, Job
Doherty, Joe
Dollfus, Emile
Dollfus, Frédéric C.
Dollfus family, 8.1, 14.1
Dominica, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Dover Manufacturing Company, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, nts.1
Dred Scott decision
Drinkwater family
Dunbar, Mr.
Duncan, Stephen
Dutch East Indies
East China Sea
East India Cotton Association
East Indies, 2.1, 4.1
Ebn el Awam, Abu Zacaria
Eccles’ Spinning Mill, 7.1, 13.1
Economist, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
Edinburgh Review, 3.1, 7.1
Egypt, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
ancient
British takeover of
cotton imports of
cotton industry and exports of, itr.1, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
debt and bankruptcy of
disease and famine in
Egyptian Cotton Manufacturing Company
Egyptian Delta Railways Company
Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture
Eiichi, Shibusawa, 13.1, 13.2
Eingeborenenkultur
Ellison, Thomas, 5.1, 8.1, 11.1
Elmina
Embargo Act (1807)
Emerson, William
Empire Cotton Growing Association
Engel-Dollfus, Frédéric
England, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1
Cheshire, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Lancashire, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Somerset
Staffordshire
working class in
see also Great Britain
English Ladies’ Free Grown Cotton movement
Enlightenment, itr.1, 7.1