Cloth: A Fateful Compromise with the Cotton Trade

by Elizabeth Anderson

John Grant, son of a poor Scottish Highlander, made a fateful bargain with those exploiting the weakness of others. In choosing to become a cloth merchant, he hid from himself the appalling treatment of the powerless. The letters of this remarkable multi-generational family, previously unpublished, give immediacy to the profound dislocations created by British efforts to mass produce cotton cloth, the generator of the Industrial Revolution. The legacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08DSX8XQL
• ISBN13: 9798670386241
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"