Empire of Cotton-History and Archaeology-買書書 BuyBookBook
Empire of Cotton-History and Archaeology-買書書 BuyBookBook

Empire of Cotton

A Global History

Sven Beckert (Author) ... more
Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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English • Age Adult - Adult
640 pages • 5.15 x 8.0 x 1.25 in
Approx. weight: 1.29 lb
Publication date: 10 Nov,2015
Barcode: 9780375713965 • Vintage
More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
History and Archaeology
  • History of the Americas
  • Cultural studies: food and society
  • General and world history

Description

By: Sven Beckert  

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's 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.

“Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times

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. 



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