HIST 80b Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Yangban, Rangaku, Aisin Gioro
12 Feb 2017
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Initially, india had the advantage in producing inexpensive cotton textiles, until britain overtook them through tariffs, slavery, and inventions such as eli whitney"s cotton gin. When britain colonized india they reversed the imbalance of trade with the qing. England"s industrial revolution arrived due to a desire to protect domestic textile industries from indian imports, steam power, and access to coal to generate steam. Slavery in the caribbean provided cheap cotton for british textile mills. The expansion of colonialism in india after the seven years war added a market for cloth produced by steam power. The high qing: triumph and the sources of decline. The qing created an imbalance of trade that greatly favored themselves and would ultimately lead to the opium trade. Both the ming and qing imported large quantities of silver and copper from japan and the americas in exchange for silk, porcelain, and tea.
