Name: Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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Author: Sven Beckert
ISBN: 9780375713965

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Sven Beckert

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

640

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.0 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9780375713965

Synopsis "Empire of Cotton: A Global History "

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE - A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist."Masterly ... An astonishing achievement." --The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.

Sven Beckert

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Sven Beckert (nacido en 1965 en Frankfurt) es un influyente historiador germano-estadounidense, profesor Laird Bell de Historia Estadounidense en la Universidad de Harvard y codirector del Programa de Estudios del Capitalismo, conocido por su enfoque en la historia del capitalismo global, especialmente a través de su influyente obra Empire of Cotton. Doctorado por Columbia, ha recibido premios como el Guggenheim y el Bancroft, y su trabajo explora las conexiones entre economía, política, trabajo y globalización desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, investigando también la historia de Harvard y la esclavitud

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