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Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
Category: Non-Fiction
Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Philip Taft PrizeCotton has created vast empires, powered the industrial revolution, generated huge wealth - and unimaginable suffering. As Sven Beckert's gripping history shows, this humble product is at the heart of global capitalism, and its story is the story of ...Show more
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
Category: Architecture
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 bo ...Show more
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