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050	0	0	_aHD9870.5.B43
100	1		_aBeckert, Sven. _972221
245		0	_aEmpire of cotton : _ba global history
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_a : _b, _c.
264		1	_aNew York : _bVintage books, _c2014.
300			_axxii, 615 pagesages : _billustrations, ma pagess ; _c25 cm.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aCapitalism _xHistory. _972228
650		0	_aCotton plantation workers _xHistory. _972224
650		0	_aCotton textile industry _xHistory. _972222
650		0	_aCotton trade _xHistory. _972223
650		0	_aLabor _xHistory. _972229
650		0	_aSlavery _xEconomic aspects. _972225
650		0	_aSlaves.
650		0	_aTextile workers. _972227
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999			_c16235 _d16235 _cHISTORY / Social History _v2bisacsh _cHISTORY / United States / 19th Century _v2bisacsh _cHISTORY / World _v2bisacsh
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