TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckert,Sven
TI  - Empire of cotton: a new history of global capitalism 
SN  - 9780141979984 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2015///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Cotton trade
KW  - History
KW  - Cotton manufacture
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Farming and Country Life
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high. Sven Beckert's book is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works
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