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035			_a(OCoLC)904459253
050		4	_aHD 9870.5 _b.B43 2015
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aBeckert, Sven, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEmpire of cotton : _ba global history / _cSven Beckert.
250			_aFirst Vintage Books edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c2015.
264		4	_c2014
300			_axxii, 615 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 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			_a"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 of machine 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"--Provided by publisher.
586			_aBancroft Prize, 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	_aEnslaved persons.
650		0	_aTextile workers.
650		0	_aCapitalism _xHistory.
650		0	_aLabor _xHistory.
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