Twilight of an Industry in East Africa: Textile Manufacturing, 1830-1940 Katharine Frederick

1. Introduction: Africa’s Piece of the Global Textile Puzzle

2. An Industry Vanishes: Cotton Cloth Manufacturing in Malawi’s Lower Shire Valley, 1850–1930

3. Rise of the Coastal Consumer: Coast-Side Drivers of East Africa’s Cotton Cloth Imports, 1830–1900

4. The Limits of the Caravan Trade: Cloth Imports into Interior Central East Africa, c. 1850–1900

5. Globalization or Colonial Taxation? Explaining the Decline of Textile Production in Ufipa, Tanzania, c. 1880–1940

6. Drivers of Divergence: Textile Manufacturing in East and West Africa from the Early Modern Period to the Post-Colonial Era

7. Conclusion: Global–Local Interactions and Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa