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Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckert, Sven, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cotton textile industry--History.
- Cotton textile industry.
- Cotton trade--History.
- Cotton trade.
- Cotton plantation workers--History.
- Cotton plantation workers.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 615 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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. The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and politicians, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global economy came to exist. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Rise of a Global Commodity 3
- Chapter 2 Building War Capitalism 29
- Chapter 3 The Wages of War Capitalism 56
- Chapter 4 Capturing Labor, Conquering Land 83
- Chapter 5 Slavery Takes Command 98
- Chapter 6 Industrial Capitalism Takes Wing 136
- Chapter 7 Mobilizing Industrial Labor 175
- Chapter 8 Making Cotton Global 199
- Chapter 9 A War Reverberates Around the World 242
- Chapter 10 Global Reconstruction 274
- Chapter 11 Destructions 312
- Chapter 12 The New Cotton Imperialism 340
- Chapter 13 The Return of the Global South 379
- Chapter 14 The Weave and the Weft: An Epilogue 427.
- ISBN:
- 9780375713965
- 0375713964
- OCLC:
- 904459253
- Publisher Number:
- 99969664625
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