Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 c.2014Edition: Primera ediciónDescription: xxii, 615 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 25 cmContent type:
  • texto
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  • no mediado
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  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 9780375414145 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD9870.5 B38 2015
Contents:
The 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.
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The 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.

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