Beckert, Sven <br/><br/>
Empire of cotton:  a new history of global capitalism 

 - Great Britain   Penguin Books  2015 
 - xxii, 615 p. 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/274614/empire-of-cotton-by-beckert-sven/9780141979984) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780141979984 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Building war capitalism<br/>Global reconstruction<br/>Capitalism
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.1735  / BEC