Empire of cotton

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"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global 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 ofmachine production in 1780, these men created a potent innovation (Beckert calls it war capitalism, capitalism based on unrestrained actions of private individuals; the domination of masters over slaves, of colonial capitalists over indigenous inhabitants), and crucially affected the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia. We see how this thing called war capitalism shaped the rise of cotton, and then was used as a lever to transform the world. The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, farmers and merchants, workers and factory owners. In this as in so many other ways, Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the modern world. The result is a book as unsettling and disturbing 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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Empire of Cotton

Rating: 4 / 5 | Prijs: € 10.99

Winner of the 2015 bancroft prize winner of the 2015 philip taft prize finalist for the 2015 pulitzer prize for history shortlisted for the 2015 cundhill prize in historical literature economist books of the year 2015 a masterpiece of the historian s craft the nation for about 900 years from 1000 Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Empire Of Cotton

Rating: 4 / 5 | Prijs: € 18.93

For about 900 years from 1000 to 1900 cotton was the world s most important manufacturing industry it remains a vast business this book tells the history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world it is also a case history of how the world works winner of the Uiterlijk 3 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Empire of Cotton

Rating: 4 / 5 | Prijs: € 53.36

One of the new york times 10 best books of the yearwinner of the bancroft prizepulitzer prize finalistthe 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 Uiterlijk 8 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 januari 2015

Aantal pagina's: 640

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Sven Beckert

Hoofduitgeverij: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Originele titel: King Cotton

Editie: 1

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 133 mm

Product hoogte: 38 mm

Product lengte: 203 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 133 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm

Verpakking lengte: 203 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 589 g

EAN: 9780375713965

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