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Empire of cotton : a global history /

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beckert, Sven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Cotton textile industry > History.
Cotton trade > History.
Cotton plantation workers > History.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Slaves.
Textile workers.
Capitalism > History.
Labor > History.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / World.
Table of Contents:
  • The rise of a global commodity
  • Building war capitalism
  • The wages of war capitalism
  • Capturing labor, conquering land
  • Slavery takes command
  • Industrial capitalism takes wing
  • Mobilizing industrial labor
  • Making cotton global
  • A war reverberates around the world
  • Global reconstruction
  • Destructions
  • The new cotton imperialism
  • The return of the global South
  • The weave and the weft: an epilogue.