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Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert.
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:
Beckert, Sven
(Author)
Format:
Book
Language:
English
Published:
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2014.
Edition:
First edition.
Subjects:
Cotton textile industry
>
History.
Cotton trade
>
History.
Cotton plantation workers
>
History.
Slavery
>
Economic aspects.
Slaves.
Textile workers.
Capitalism
>
History.
Labor
>
History.
Holdings
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Table of Contents:
The rise of a global commodity
Building war capitalism
The wages of war capitalism
Capturing labor, conquering land
Slavery takes command
Industrial capitalism takes wing
Mobilizing industrial labor
Making cotton global
A war reverberates around the world
Global reconstruction
Destructions
The new cotton imperialism
The return of the global South
The weave and the weft: an epilogue.
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