Giorgio Riello

I teach Global History at the University of Warwick in the UK and I have written on fashion and textiles in Europe and Asia in the period 1500 to 1800.

I recently completed a monograph entitled "Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World"(CUP 2013). This book analyses the role played by cotton textiles in the re-shaping of global trade and production during the long period from 1300 to the mechanisation of the industry in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.

My other books include "The Spinning World" (OUP 2009; Pb 2011); "How India Clothed the World" (Brill 2009; Pb 2013); "La Moda"(Rome and Bari, 2012); Global Design History (Routledge, 2011); The Fashion History Reader(Basingstoke, 2010) and the best-selling Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (Berg, 2006, Pb 2011).