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Beckert, Sven.
Empire of Cotton
[Libby] :
A Global History.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
2014.
us history.
Food.
Slave trade.
Global Economy.
Colonialism.
Natural history.
19th Century.
European History.
american history.
global .
World History.
culinary.
textiles.
economic history.
Slavery.
Capitalism.
race.
Globalization.
coal mining.
industrial revolution.
Pulitzer Prize.
History.
Agriculture.
Cotton.
Imperialism.
Sociology.
Economics.
global capitalism.
nonfiction books.
global history.
history books.
historical books.
economics books.
pulitzer prize books.
agriculture history.
food policy in the united states.
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History.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<p>The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.   <br />  <br /> Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial...</p>.
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
10 Best Books of 2015.
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