Empire of cotton: a new history of global capitalism

By:

"Beckert, Sven"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Penguin Books; 2015Description: 615pISBN:

9780141979984

Subject(s):

Cotton trade

DDC classification:

338.4767721 BEC

Summary: 'Knowledgeable and stunning' Orhan Pamuk 'A masterpiece of the historian's craft' The Nation 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 superb new 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	338.4767721 BEC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Kaveri Hostel OT Lounge (KAVERI)	2023-09-29	158882

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'Knowledgeable and stunning' Orhan Pamuk

'A masterpiece of the historian's craft' The Nation

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 superb new 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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