Britain’s cotton dominance came at the cost of India’s destroyed cotton industry

Evidence

Williams is describing the particular role played by cotton production on the growth and transformation of the British and then the world economy. Yet the British cotton industry only came to dominate the world market after destroying the cotton industries of India. As always, the lesson is that there is nothing you have which you did not steal from us. Cotton fills a similarly central role in the economic development of the so-called New World - the globally traded cash crop around which a new economy is formed, based on the illegal expropriation of land (from Native America) and the illegal expropriation of labor (from African America). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2852

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2852