Empire of Cotton: A Global History - Sven Beckert
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The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world.
Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world.
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. 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. 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.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
December 28th, 2014
Looks like a good book. I will wait until more reviews accumulate on amazon before deciding to read it or not.
March 24th, 2019
Thank you. This is a central text in the burgeoning study of the history of capitalism, and I’m both surprised and thrilled to find it in audiobook form. Though, of course, a hard copy should still be consulted for the footnotes, which demonstrate that this is one well-researched book! Had I known such exciting studies lay ahead, esp the whole history of capitalism sub-discipline, I never would have dropped out of the history PhD program so many years ago. -Sk
July 3rd, 2019
thank you very much , very good book
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