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Empire of Cotton A Global History

Paperback • 2015 • English

Empire of Cotton A Global History

By Sven Beckert

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About the book

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the wor...Show more

International economics
Development economics and emerging economies
Economic systems and structures

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ISBN

9780375713965

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Empire of Cotton A Global History

Format

Paperback

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