TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckert, Sven
TI  - Empire of cotton: a new history of global capitalism
SN  - 9780141979984
U1  - 338.1735 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Great Britain 
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Building war capitalism
KW  - Global reconstruction
KW  - Capitalism
N2  - 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)
ER  -