Download or read book Losing the Thread written by Jim Powell and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain's largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. This book examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and its victims, during the war.