Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Sven Beckert

640 pages 2014

4 editions

nonfiction business economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understan...

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