Le commerce du coton en Mediterranee a la fin du Moyen Age.

9789004162266

Le commerce du coton en Mediterranee a la fin du Moyen Age.

Nam, Jong-Kuk.

BRILL

2007

567 pages

$184.00

Hardcover

The medieval Mediterranean; v.68

HF395

Nam (history, Dongguk U.) looks

closely at the cotton trade in the Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages to better understand the movement of people and materials within maritime commerce. He traces consumption patterns of commercially traded cotton products, from luxury items down to cheap goods, and the nature of the products themselves, from standard clothing down to byproducts. He then examines the means of production in Syria, Turkey and Egypt and areas in the Occident, the transport of cotton and its products to Venice, France and Spain, and its processing in factories in Italy and Barcelona. He concludes that given the number of workers involved in the industry, the level of investment in infrastructure, the development of financial instruments, and the production rates, international trade of cotton was significant in the early development of the region.

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