Empire Of Cotton

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The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. 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. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world. 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. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of 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 world came to exist.

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Genre : History
Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Vintage
Release : 2014-12-02
File : 642 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780385353250


Empire Of Cotton

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WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATURE Economist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'A masterpiece of the historian's craft' The Nation 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.

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Genre : History
Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release : 2014-12-04
File : 731 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780141979977


The Near East

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Genre : Eastern question (Balkan)
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Release : 1919
File : 754 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951000969682P


Reports From The Consuls Of The United States On The Commerce Manufactures Etc Of Their Consular Districts

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Release : 1887
File : 840 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB11654785


International Review Of Cotton And Allied Textile Industries

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Genre : Cotton trade
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Release : 1934
File : 732 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3031525


Transactions Of The National Association Of Cotton Manufacturers

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Genre : Cotton manufacture
Author : National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (U.S.)
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Release : 1904
File : 388 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924066332457


Empire Cotton Growing Review

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Genre : Cotton
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Release : 1957
File : 840 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3873505


Report By Her Majesty S Government In The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland To The General Assembly Of The United Nations On Togoland Under United Kingdom Administration

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Author : Great Britain Government
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Release : 1938
File : 612 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105027869010


Cotton And Cotton Manufactures In The United States

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Genre : Cotton manufacture
Author : Edward Atkinson
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Release : 1880
File : 70 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044012931614


Empire And Commonwealth Year Book

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Genre : Great Britain
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Release : 1952
File : 342 Pages
ISBN-13 : UGA:32108008579792