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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Contributor(s): Beckert, Sven (Author)

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ISBN: 0375713964     ISBN-13: 9780375713965
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | World - General
- Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness
- Business & Economics | Industries - Fashion & Textile Industry
Dewey: 338.476
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" L (1.30 lbs) 640 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Modern
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/27/2015 pg. 24
 
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

Winner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award

The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today.
In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.

 
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