This 434-page book published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 examines how cotton led the way in industrializing Europe and shaped the modern global textile and garment trade. The book explores the earlier globalized cotton economy prior to 1750 when Asia manufactured and exported cotton textiles worldwide. After 1750, cotton drove the industrialization of Europe and countries like India, China, and the Ottoman Empire switched from producers to buyers of European cotton goods, a position they held for over two hundred years, transforming the global textiles trade.