Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War

by Jim Powell

This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain's raw cotton trade and on the Liverpool cotton market. It includes an analysis of primary sources never used by historians. Before the civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of Britain's cotton. In August 1861, this fell to almost zero, where it remained for four years. Despite increased supplies from elsewhere, Britain's largest industry received only 36 per...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789622492
• ISBN13: 9781789622492
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"