2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Printed linen and American raw cotton for the 18th century Catalan Cotton Industry
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25380436
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Aichi Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | カタルーニャ / 綿業 / 綿工業 / 捺染 / 更紗 / 綿花 / 亜麻布 / バルセロナ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The commercial and productive structure of the 1780s Catalan cotton industry was as follows. A large amount of white linen cloth produced in Silesian and northern France were imported into Barcelona, where they were printed in calicoes factories and re-exported to Spanish America. In exchange for the export of this printed linen, raw cotton (American cotton) was imported from Spanish America, and printed calicoes made of this material were principally consumed in the Spanish market.
Using historical documentations, our investigation clarified that this structure can be interpreted as follows. Export printed linen to Spanish America and import raw cotton meant that export "a European old product (linen cloth)" decorated with a “new technology for Europe (printing)", and import "a new material for the Europe" which has a long fiber, that is American cotton. With this new material, Catalan manufacturers could be liberated from the domination of "a relatively old material (Maltese yarn).
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| Free Research Field |
カタルーニャ経済史
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