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1 A shifting landscapes of class, culture, gender, race and protest in the American Northeast and South

The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000, 2010, p.555-582

Copyright © 2010 Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemstra-Kuperus, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and the contributors ;ISBN: 0754664287 ;ISBN: 9780754664284 ;EISBN: 9781317044291 ;EISBN: 9781315612683 ;EISBN: 1315612682 ;EISBN: 1317044290 ;DOI: 10.4324/9781315612683-26

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    1 A shifting landscapes of class, culture, gender, race and protest in the American Northeast and South
  • Author: Voss, Lex Heerma van
  • Is Part Of: The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000, 2010, p.555-582
  • Description: During the period of American colonization (1620-1760), domestic production of linen and oollen te tiles, dependent on the de elopment of a -gro ing and sheep-herding in the colonies clustered along the Atlantic coast, complemented the importation of fabrics of all kinds from Britain.1 Maritime traders could exchange Ne England lumber and fish for ra cotton gro n by African sla es in the West Indies. Mercantilist policies by the British Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discouraged the development of competitive industries in the colonies. Male-dominated artisan trades in textiles faded away in the New World, while spinning wheels, handlooms and carding tools operated by women and girls cro ded colonial households. ritish efforts in the 176 s to impose ta es on its North American colonies pro o ed boycotts of English fabrics. he ma ing and wearing of handmade cloth became an act of patriotic resistance both before and after the ar of the American e olution (1776 1783) and the ar of 181 bet een the New United States and Great Britain.2
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0754664287
    ISBN: 9780754664284
    EISBN: 9781317044291
    EISBN: 9781315612683
    EISBN: 1315612682
    EISBN: 1317044290
    DOI: 10.4324/9781315612683-26
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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