Empire of cotton: a new history of global capitalism

By:

Beckert, Sven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Great Britain Penguin Books 2015Description: xxii, 615 pISBN:

9780141979984

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.1735 BEC

Summary: 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. (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/274614/empire-of-cotton-by-beckert-sven/9780141979984)

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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.

(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/274614/empire-of-cotton-by-beckert-sven/9780141979984)

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