Empire of cotton : a global history

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.
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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