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Cottonopolis - Wikipedia
Cottonopolis was a 19th-century nickname for Manchester, as it was a metropolis and the centre of the cotton industry.
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A short history of Manchester: the rise and fall of Cottonopolis
Manchester became 'Cottonopolis' - the centre of the global finished cotton trade. Here we break down into bite-sized chunks how the city achieved that.
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how slavery made Manchester the world's first industrial city
The name “Cottonopolis” – literally, the city of cotton – came into use around this time. The US cotton crop grew by a factor of seven from 1830 ...
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Cottonopolis (Chapter 3) - Technology in the Industrial Revolution
Nicknamed Cottonopolis, Manchester was the city most closely associated with the Industrial Revolution, as it became first the manufacturing center of cotton ...
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Cottonopolis NQ – Japanese‑fusion bar & restaurant, Manchester
Cottonopolis in Manchester's Northern Quarter serves inventive Japanese‑fusion small plates, bao buns, yakitori and curated cocktails.
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Cottonopolis
Cottonopolis (kɒt(ə)nˈɒpəlɪs) [f. cotton, after metropolis.] ‘Cotton City’: a sobriquet for Manchester as the centre of the cotton industry.1851 E. L. Blanchard Diary 9 Aug. in Scott & Howard Life E.L.B. (1891) I. 74 Still in the ‘Cottonopolis’. 1886 B. Quaritch Catal. of MSS. 3503 It..deserves to b...
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MANCHESTER COTTONOPOLIS - Selvedge Magazine
'Cottonopolis'. It was the Victorian industrial dream, a business hub crowned by the Cotton Exchange from where every aspect of the global ...
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Cottonopolis | Creative Manchester
Cottonopolis is an inter-disciplinary research project, seeking to examine and evaluate the socio-economic legacies of industrial cotton production in the city ...
www.creative.manchester.ac.uk
www.creative.manchester.ac.uk
COTTONOPOLIS - Home
Cottonopolis, as it became known, has been a continuing human experiment ever since, drawing in people from all walks of life and corners of the globe.
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Heritage - English Fine Cottons
Manchester and the towns surrounding the city were known as 'Cottonopolis'. The city was the epicentre of the country's cotton industry when Britain was ...
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www.englishfinecottons.co.uk
Cottonian
▪ I. Cottonian, n. nonce-wd. (kəˈtəʊnɪən) [Cf. Cottonopolis.] One whose interests are in the cotton trade; a member of the ‘Manchester school’ of politicians or economists.1846 Ld. Ashburton in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiv. 77 Cobden's speech to the French economists showed great tact and ability....
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Textile industry of Imperial Russia
At the time Manchester was known as Cottonopolis, and De Jersey and Co. played a major role in developing the cotton industry in the Russian Empire.
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-polis
-polis repr. Gr. πόλις city, as in metropolis, necropolis; sometimes used (in the form -opolis) to form names or nicknames of cities or towns, e.g. Cottonopolis, Leatheropolis, Porkopolis.1868 W. M. Punshon in Macdonald Life (1887) 305 Cincinnati, the ‘Porkopolis’ of the Union. 1881 Chicago Times 16...
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Rachel Lebowitz
Her third book, Cottonopolis, uses found and prose poems to tell the story of the cotton industry during the industrial revolution.
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De Jersey & Co.
They were attracted to Manchester, which had acquired the nickname Cottonopolis by the mid nineteenth century.
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