Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert

Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism

Sven Beckert

640 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Winner of the 2015 Bancroft Prize and the 2015 Philip Taft Prize Finalist for the 2015 Pulizter Prize for History and shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Economist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015. For about 900 years, from 1000 ...

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