Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
Following an earlier Act of 1700 prohibiting the import of finished Asian cottons, the 1721 Act went further and banned the use and wearing of most printed calicoes in Britain. The intended beneficiary was the woollen and silk interest, which had lobbied hard against Indian cloth landed by the East India Company. The unintended beneficiary was the infant British cotton trade, which was handed a protected home market and an incentive to make domestically what it could no longer import.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- The British textile industry · industry sector · United Kingdom · not located
- Raw cotton · trade good · Imported to Lancashire from the Levant, the West Indies and the United States South · not located
- English (later British) East India Company · chartered company · not located
Evidence
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Supports the high-wage-economy explanation of why mechanisation was profitable in Britain first, the sequence of textile bottlenecks, and the dating and interpretation of the Engels pause. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — outbound HTTP to research domains is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before this pack began. The book is a real and widely held title, but nothing attributed to it here was read from it.
Cambridge University Press · 2009 · Partly verified
Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
Recorded on The British textile industry
- Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
- Qing trade confined to Canton
- Hargreaves devises the spinning jenny
- Boston Tea Party
- Crompton completes the spinning mule
- The rotative engine turns a shaft
- Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
- Cartwright patents the power loom
- Arkwright's patents are overturned
- East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
- The Opium Wars
- Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen
- Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China
- The Great Exhibition
Related
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- The Great Exhibition · 1 May – October 1851
- Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China · 1848–1851
- Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen · 1839-06-03/1839-06-25
- The Opium Wars · 1839–1860
- East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded · 1834
- Cartwright patents the power loom · 1785
- Arkwright's patents are overturned · 1785
- Commutation Act cuts British tea duty · 1784