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028 _a: Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
082 _a338.476 BEC
100 _aBeckert, Sven.
245 _a Empire of cotton
_b: a global history.
_c/ Sven Beckert.
260 _a, New York
_b: Vintage Books
_c, 2015.
300 _axxii, 615p.
_c: 24cm.
365 _b00
520 _aWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTWinner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book AwardThe 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. The result is a book 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.
650 _aHistory
650 _aEconomic aspects
650 _aTextile workers
700 _aSven Beckert.
942 _cBOOK
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