Originally published: 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
The story of humanity is the story of textiles, as old as civilization itself. From Minoans exporting wool colored with purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire, the gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David, and the Taj Mahal. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, "The Fabric of Civilization" tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.
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