Empire of Cotton: A Global History

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10 nov. 2015 - 640 pages

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's 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.

“Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times

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. Sven 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.

In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism. 

 

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Table des matières

Chapter I
3
Building War Capitalism
29
The Wages of War Capitalism
56
Capturing Labor Conquering Land
83
Making Cotton Global
199
Global Reconstruction
274
Destructions
312
The New Cotton Imperialism
340
The Return of the Global South
379
Chapter 14
427
Chapter 9
506
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À propos de l'auteur (2015)

SVEN BECKERT is the Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University. Holding a PhD from Columbia University, he has written widely on the economic, social, and political history of capitalism. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from Harvard Business School, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He was also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreEmpire of Cotton: A Global History
A Borzoi book
AuteurSven Beckert
Éditionillustrée, réimprimée
ÉditeurKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015
ISBN0375713964, 9780375713965
Longueur640 pages
  
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