- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780141979984
- Length: 640 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 130mm
- Weight: 437g
- Price: £14.99
Empire of Cotton
A New History of Global Capitalism
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For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high.
Sven Beckert's superb new book is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works.
Sven Beckert's superb new book is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works.
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- Paperback 2015
- Ebook 2014