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100 1 $aBeckert, Sven.
245 10$aEmpire of cotton :$ba global history /$cSven Beckert.
250 $a1st Vintage Books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2015.
300 $axxii, 615 p. :$bill., maps ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [449]-587) and index.
505 0 $aThe rise of a global commodity -- Building war capitalism -- The wages of war capitalism -- Capturing labor, conquering land -- Slavery takes command -- Industrial capitalism takes wing -- Mobilizing industrial labor -- Making cotton global -- A war reverberates around the world -- Global reconstruction -- Destructions -- The new cotton imperialism -- The return of the global South -- The weave and the weft : an epilogue.
520 $aThe story of how, 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. Beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas.
586 $aBancroft Prize, 2015.
586 $aPulitzer Prize Finalist, History, 2015.
650 0$aCotton textile industry$xHistory.
650 0$aCotton trade$xHistory.
650 0$aCotton plantation workers$xHistory.
650 0$aSlavery$xEconomic aspects.
650 0$aSlaves.
650 0$aTextile workers.
650 0$aCapitalism$xHistory.
650 0$aLabor$xHistory.