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

3.0

I was really excited about this title, hoping to learn about how cotton affected us all. The author did tell about this but constantly restated what was previously stated over and over. I would have like to learned more about the plant (some was in the book) and how it was "picked" and more about slavery as related to cotton (again some in the book). This book was more about capitalism and economics of cotton than an actual "global history".