TY - BOOK AU - Beckert, Sven. AU - Sven Beckert TI - Empire of Cotton: : A New History of Global Capitalism SN - 9780141979984 U1 - 338.476 BEC PY - 2014/// CY - , Great Britain PB - : Penguin Book KW - Global Capitalism KW - History of Global Capitalism KW - Sven Beckert N2 - For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business. This book tells the history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is also a case history of how the world works ER -