Subtitle: A New History of Global Capitalism
Author: Beckert, Sven
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9780141979984
Pages: 640
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher's city: London
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Empire of Cotton
€19.99
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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