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

Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism

Sven Beckert

615 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Cotton is so ubiquitous and important as to be almost invisible and yet its story lies at the heart of the world's history, and at the heart of the history of capitalism.For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important...

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