A review by quech87
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

4.0

I wanted to give 3.5 stars to the book but leaned towards 4 stars because of the great scholarly value of the book. It is a very important book describing an extremely important period of our history by an author who no doubt has good knowledge about the subject but is a bad editor/writer. I might have given the book 5 stars if the book was 240 pages and not 440. Its repetitive and drags on in the second half.