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Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert.
Title:
Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert.
Author:
Beckert, Sven, author.
ISBN:
9780375414145
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xxii, 615 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- The rise of a global commodity -- Building war capitalism -- The wages of war capitalism -- Capturing labor, conquering land -- Slavery takes command -- Industrial capitalism takes wings -- Mobilizing labor -- Making the global -- A war reverberates around the world -- Reconstructing the empire of cotton -- Creative destructions -- The new cotton imperialism -- The return of the global south -- Epilogue : the weave and the weft.
Abstract:
"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism."-- Provided by publisher.