Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert.

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Beckert, Sven [author.]

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TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2015Edition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: xxii, 615 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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General

ISBN:

9780375713965

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DDC classification:

338.4/767721 23
338.4 15

LOC classification:

HD9870.5 .B43 2015

Summary: Details the rise of the cotton industry through a combination of imperial expansion, slave labor, machine production, and wage workers; its centrality in the world economy; and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Beckert, Sven. Empire of cotton

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-587) and index.

Details the rise of the cotton industry through a combination of imperial expansion, slave labor, machine production, and wage workers; its centrality in the world economy; and its making and remaking of global capitalism.

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