Textiles in the Pacific, 1500–1900

This volume brings together thirteen articles related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region. Collectively, these articles bring out two central themes: the leading role of textiles in linking up the economies across the Pacific in the era before the 19th-century rise of steam-engine-powered global integration, and the crucial role of textile manufacturing and trade in the early stage of industrialization for most of the developing Pacific economies after the 19th century.