Up to the second half of the eighteenth century the most important fibres in the world were wool, flax and silk. But the Industrial Revolution in England, together with the invention of the Cotton gin by Whitney in 1793, soon gave cotton the first place amongst all the important fibers in world's textile industry. Although some attempts were made, both in Angola and Mozambique to cultivate cotton since remote days -- as far back as the American Civil War, when market prices suffered an important rise no serious efforts were made to grow this crop before the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910, when some definite legislation was passed to encourage the development of this culture.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:5844 |
| Date | January 1952 |
| Creators | Da Silva Barbosa, António Jorge |
| Publisher | Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Zoology and Entomology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Masters, MSc |
| Format | 159 pages, pdf |
| Rights | Da Silva Barbosa, António Jorge |
Page generated in 0.0025 seconds