in domains relevant to textiles manufacturing using Indian cotton, particularly for gins, openers and scutchers, and carding machines. This manifested in the major manufacturer Dobson & Barlow utilizing four different gin designs over the course of four years, as well as a 19-30 percent reduction in wasted Indian cotton over the period from 1862 to 1868. Hanlon also finds that the relative price of Indian cotton to American cotton returned to its pre-Civil War level by 1874 despite significantly increasing in abundance, which is evidence of the "strong induced-bias hypothesis" as proposed by Daron Acemoglu. In 2022, Folk-Revival band :Bird in the Belly adapted two poems into song from the :University of Exeter Cotton Famine Poetry Archive. These appear on their album :After the City. See also King cotton Cotton diplomacy Notes Footnotes Bibliography External links Hard Times, Gerald Schofield A short History of the Famine. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, by Edwin Waugh Primary source on the hardship from 1862. Report of the International Relief Committee for the Suffering Operatives of Great Britain 1862–1863 Cotton industry in England 1860s in England History of Lancashire History of Greater Manchester History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom Economic history of the American Civil War Foreign relations during the American Civil War American Civil War by location