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035 $a(OCoLC)on1109826884
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035 $a(OCoLC)1109826884
050 4 $aHD9870.5$b.B43 2015
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049 $aZCUA
100 1 $aBeckert, Sven,$eauthor.
245 10 $aEmpire of cotton :$ba global history /$cSven Beckert.
250 $aFirst Vintage Books edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a1 online resource (xxii, 615 pages) :$billustrations, maps
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
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.
588 $aDescription based on online resource; title from resource home page (EbscoHost, viewed May 28, 2020).
650 0 $aCotton textile industry$xHistory.
650 0 $aCotton trade$xHistory.
650 0 $aCotton plantation workers$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlavery$xEconomic aspects.
650 0 $aSlaves.
650 0 $aTextile workers.
650 0 $aCapitalism$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY$zUnited States$x19th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY$xSocial History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY$xWorld.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aCapitalism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00846425
650 7 $aCotton plantation workers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00881041
650 7 $aCotton textile industry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00881056
650 7 $aCotton trade.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00881080
650 7 $aLabor.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00989798
650 7 $aSlavery$xEconomic aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01120438
650 7 $aSlaves.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01120522
650 7 $aTextile workers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01148958
655 4 $aElectronic books.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iPrint version:$aBeckert, Sven.$tEmpire of cotton.$bFirst Vintage Books edition.$dNew York : Vintage Books, 2015$z9780385353250$w(OCoLC) 904459253
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