Rises and Falls of Linen Industries in Eighteenth-Century Europe

本研究考虑了以下问题：1）在英国殖民时期的美洲消费了什么样的纺织品，2）从事亚麻布贸易的商人在生产方面扮演了什么角色，3）爱尔兰亚麻纱线用于生产什么样的亚麻布。可以理解，兰开夏亚麻工业（英国的胚胎棉工业）是在爱尔兰和欧洲大陆各地区亚麻工业以及印度印花布工业福尔斯的复杂国际联系中发展起来的，而不是在独立工业化的英国的传统框架内理解它。

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.