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Author Beckert, Sven, author.

Title Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert.

Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Auburn PL Business & Work 2nd FL  HD 9870.5 .B43 2014    AVAILABLE  
 Baxter ML Adult NF  338.4 Bec    AVAILABLE  
 Boothbay Hbr Non Fiction  338.4 BEC    AVAILABLE  
 CMCC Stacks  HD9870.5 .B43 2014    AVAILABLE  
 Curtis ML Adult Non Fiction  338.47677 Beckert emp 2014    AVAILABLE  
 Hobbs Adult Nonfiction  338.4 BEC    AVAILABLE  
 Merrill ML Adult Nonfiction  338.4767 BEC    AVAILABLE  
 MMA Stacks  HD9070.5 .B435 2015    AVAILABLE  
 Northeast HL Nonfiction  338.476 BEC    AVAILABLE  
 Rumford Non-Fic  338.4 Bec    AVAILABLE  

Physical Description xxii, 615 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note Imprint varies.
"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-587) and index.
Contents The rise of a global commodity -- Building war capitalism -- The wages of war capitalism -- Capturing labor, conquering land -- Slavery takes command -- Industrial capitalism takes wing -- Mobilizing industrial labor -- Making cotton global -- A war reverberates around the world -- Global reconstruction -- Destructions -- The new cotton imperialism -- The return of the global South -- The weave and the weft: an epilogue.
Subject Cotton textile industry -- History.
Cotton trade -- History.
Cotton plantation workers -- History.
Slavery -- Economic aspects.
Enslaved persons.
Textile workers.
Capitalism -- History.
Labor -- History.
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