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Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
Category: History
For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high. Sven Beckert's superb new bo ...Show more
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
Category: History
Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Philip Taft PrizeCotton has created vast empires, powered the industrial revolution, generated huge wealth - and unimaginable suffering. As Sven Beckert's gripping history shows, this humble product is at the heart of global capitalism, and its story is the story of ...Show more
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