| The Cambridge History of Western Textiles 2 Volume Hardback Boxed Set Contributor(s): Jenkins, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521341078 ISBN-13: 9780521341073 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $611.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: An authoritative study on the production and uses of textiles in Europe sinceancient times. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 338.476 |
| LCCN: 2001052958 |
| Physical Information: 3.44" H x 7.2" W x 10.56" (8.20 lbs) 1400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Essential in the everyday lives of all societies for providing protection and warmth, textiles also fulfill social, cultural, military, legal, and symbolic functions and have played a key role in the economic activity of societies from ancient times. This magnificent two-volume study brings together the leading experts on textiles from eight countries, ensuring authoritative coverage of the production and uses of textiles in western societies from the earliest times to the present day. With contributions from archaeologists, economic and social historians, historians of fashion and the history of dress, and museum curators, no other book offers the breadth of coverage of this one, in terms of time period, subject matter, or approach. The book's range and accessibility will ensure that it is a key reference for specialists and non-specialists alike. David Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Economic History in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. He is also Governor and Company Secretary of the Pasold Research Fund, which promotes research and publication in the history of textiles in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jenkins has a special interest in the wool textile industry, where his major contribution is (with the late K.G. Ponting) The British Wool Textile Industry, 1880-1914 (Ashgate Publishing Company, 1982). For several years Jenkins was a member of Council and Honorary Secretary of the Economic History Society and is a member of the Editorial Board of Textile History. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jenkins, David: - David Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Economic History in the Department of Economics and Related Studies in the University of York, and Governor and Company Secretary of the Pasold Research Fund (that promotes research and publication in the history of textiles). He has lectured in Europe, the USA and Japan and published widely on the history of textiles in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has a special interest in the wool textile industry, where his major contribution is (with K. G. Ponting) The British Wool Textile Industry, 1880-1914. |