Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism
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The prize-winning history of the key commodity that lies at the heart of the world's 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 book is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works.
Author: Sven Beckert
Format: Paperback, 640 pages, 131mm x 198mm, 438 g
Published: 2015, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: History: Specific Subjects
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The prize-winning history of the key commodity that lies at the heart of the world's 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 book is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works.
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism