Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations, languages, measures and monetary exchanges
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Catalan industry in the ‘long term’
- 3 The establishment of calico-printing in Barcelona
- 4 Why did merchant capital move into the industry in the 1740s?
- 5 The development of the industry in the 1750s and 1760s: adaptation to the requirements of ‘merchant capital’
- 6 The industry at its height, 1768–86, with investment in it as common as in drapers' shops
- 7 Spinning
- 8 The crisis of the fábrica: the industry from 1787 to 1832
- 9 The Bonaplata mill and Catalan industrialization
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations, languages, measures and monetary exchanges
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Catalan industry in the ‘long term’
- 3 The establishment of calico-printing in Barcelona
- 4 Why did merchant capital move into the industry in the 1740s?
- 5 The development of the industry in the 1750s and 1760s: adaptation to the requirements of ‘merchant capital’
- 6 The industry at its height, 1768–86, with investment in it as common as in drapers' shops
- 7 Spinning
- 8 The crisis of the fábrica: the industry from 1787 to 1832
- 9 The Bonaplata mill and Catalan industrialization
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- A Distinctive IndustrializationCotton in Barcelona 1728–1832, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992