Rises and Falls of Linen Industries in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21730279
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Economic history
Research Institution	Wako University
Principal Investigator	TAKEDA Izumi 和光大学, 経済経営学部, 准教授 (20440216)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	リネン / イギリス綿業 / アイルランド / アメリカ植民地 / 工業化 / 商人 / 消費 / グローバル・ヒストリー / リネン業 / 重商主義政策 / イギリス / アメリカ村民地 / 紡績 / 織布 / イギリス重商主義政策 / 模倣
Research Abstract	This research considers the following questions : 1) what kinds of textiles were consumed in the British colonial Americas, 2) merchants who dealt in linens played what roles toward the production side, and 3) Irish linen yarns were used in production of what kinds of linens. It can be apprehended that the Lancashire linen Industry(the British embryonic cotton industry) developed in a complicated international linkage of rises and falls of linen industries, such as those of Ireland and of various areas in continental Europe as well as calico industry of India, in stead of understanding it within the conventional framework of independently industrialised Britain.