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, Past & Present, 255 (2022), 87-139.

The history of cotton textiles reveals the extent to which the worldwide integration of different spaces of commerce and consumption brought advantages to European traders and manufacturers. Taking this view, the article extends Eric Williams' "Triangular Trade" by proposing the notion of a "Diamond-shape Trade" connecting the global spaces of the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.

, Journal of World History, 33/2 (2022), 193-232. Open Access

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This article argues that capitalist transformation must rely on a global framework of analysis. The article considers three critiques in relation to the NHC: the overemphasis of coercion; the fact that sugar, not cotton, was the main plantation crop in the Americas; and finally that historians must tell a story about slavery鈥檚 place in supporting the expansion of consumption, as well as a story about production.

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How did early modern Europeans conceive their expanding mental and knowledge world? Costume books representing the dress of the different peoples and empires around the world became popular in the sixteenth century. Surprising, they presented a world that was cumulative, in which the "global" relied on the strengthening of locality and its authenticity.

, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 48/1 (2014), pp. 1-19 (with P. Parthasarathi).

The Indian Ocean was conceptualised in the mid-nineteenth century as a unit of analysis. This paper investigates the rich research carried out over the past generation. It argues that the eighteenth century was a period characterized by profound continuities, starting with the expansion of trade in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the creation of a European colonial system in the nineteenth century.

, Enterprise & Society, 9/2 (2008), pp. 243-280. [Winner of the

In the eighteenth century subcontracting was an important way of organising production of clocks, coaches, footwear, furniture and scientific instruments. This article proposes a new theoretical interpretation of subcontracting linked to how commodities are produced, exchanged and consumed.

, Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 54/5 (2007), pp. 23-33. OPEN ACCESS

This article addresses four questions related to the shape and direction of global history: How does global history differ from history more broadly? What is its methodology, if any? Why is global history not welcomed by many historians? And finally, in what directions is global history developing?

鈥樷��, in Maria Hayward, Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublack (eds.), A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800 (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 64-84. OPEN ACCESS

鈥樷��, in Manuela Martini and Catherine Virlouvet (eds.), L鈥櫭﹎ergence de nouveaux march茅s (Vincennes: Institut de la gestion publique et du d茅veloppement 茅conomique, 2024), 155-171. OPEN ACCESS

鈥楩ailure and the Industrial Revolution: The East India Companies鈥� Procurement and the Rise of the British Cotton Textile Industry鈥�, in Joseph E. Inikori, ed., British Imperialism and Globalization: Essays in Honor of Patrick K. O'Brien (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2021), 51-71.

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鈥楩ashion in the Four Parts of the World: Time, Space and Early Modern Global Change鈥�, in Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello (eds.), Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History (London: Routledge, 2020), 41-64.

, in Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublack (eds.), The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, 1200-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 210-239 (with L. Mol脿).

'Textile Spheres: Silk in a Global and Comparative Context', in Dagmar Schaefer, Giorgio Riello, and Luca Mola', eds., (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018), 323-341.

'鈥淲ith Great Pomp and Magnificence鈥�: Royal Gifts and the Embassies between Siam and France in the Late Seventeenth Century', in Zoltan Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen, and Giorgio Riello, eds., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 235-265.

鈥楲uxury or Commodity? The Success of Indian Cotton Cloth in the First Global Age鈥�, in Karin Hofmeester and Bernd-Stefan Grewe, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 138-168.

鈥楪overning Innovation: The Political Economy of Textiles in the Eighteenth Century鈥�, in Evelyn Welch, ed., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 57-82.

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'Global Things: Europe鈥檚 Early Modern Material Transformation鈥�, in David Gaimster, Tara Hamling, and Catherine Richardson, eds., (Basingstoke: Routledge, 2016), pp. 29-45.

鈥樷�淭hings Seen and Unseen: The Material Culture of Early Modern Inventories and Their Representation of Domestic Interiors鈥�, in Paula Findlen, ed., (Basingstoke: Routledge, 2013), 125-150.

鈥楪lobal Objects: Contention and Entanglement鈥�, in Maxine Berg, ed., Writing the History of the Global (Oxford: Oxford University Press and The British Academy, 2013), 177-193. (with Glenn Adamson)

鈥楩abricating the Domestic: The Material Culture of Textiles and Social Life of the Home in Early Modern Europe鈥�, in Beverly Lemire (ed.), (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 41-65.

'Things that Shape History: Material Culture and Historical Narratives', in Karen Harvey (ed.), (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 24-47.

'The Globalisation of Cotton Textiles:Indian Cottons, Europe and the Atlantic World, 1600-1850', in Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi (eds.), The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850Link opens in a new window (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 261-287.

'The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons', in Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy (eds.), How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850Link opens in a new window (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 309-346.