Mapping Material Culture through Indian Ocean Trade: Cotton in the Global Economy

Saturday, February 25, 2017, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, CCAS Board Room, ICC #141 Teaching economics can be challenging, and is often done—when it is done at all—in a rushed survey course focused on abstract principles. This workshop offers the opportunity to add dynamism to economic history by focusing on fashions made of cotton cloth, which are as old as trade itself.