Empire of Cotton: A Global History

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Author(s): Sven Beckert
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2014

Language: English
Pages: 855

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Rise of a Global Commodity
Chapter 2: Building War Capitalism
Chapter 3: The Wages of War Capitalism
Chapter 4: Capturing Labor, Conquering Land
Chapter 5: Slavery Takes Command
Chapter 6: Industrial Capitalism Takes Wing
Chapter 7: Mobilizing Industrial Labor
Chapter 8: Making Cotton Global
Chapter 9: A War Reverberates Around the World
Chapter 10: Global Reconstruction
Chapter 11: Destructions
Chapter 12: The New Cotton Imperialism
Chapter 13: The Return of the Global South
Chapter 14: The Weave and the Weft: An Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Illustration Credits
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