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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World 
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bFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an  8220 Read expansive 8221 Read  global history that highlights  8220 Read how textiles truly changed the world 8221 Read  (iWall Street Journal/i)/bThe story of humanity is the story of textiles 8212 Read as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture.In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire Read  they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo 8217 Read s  Read David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code.  Read Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world 8217 Read s most influential commodity. 8220 Read We are taken on a journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself. 8230 Read  [The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth.&quot Read b 8212 Read iNew York Times/i/b 8220 Read Textile-making hasn 8217 Read t gotten enough credit for its own sophistication, and for all the ways it undergirds human technological innovation 8212 Read an error Virginia Postrel 8217 Read s erudite and complete book goes a long way toward correcting at last. 8221 Read b 8212 Read iWired/i/b

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