Author: Beckert, Sven

Brand: VINTAGE

Color: Cream

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Format: illustrated

Number Of Pages: 640

Release Date: 10-11-2015

Part Number: 9780375713965

Details: WINNER 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.

EAN: 9780375713965

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 1.4 inches

Languages: English