"Beckert, Sven" <br/><br/>
Empire of cotton: a new history of global capitalism 

 - London  Penguin Books  2015 
 - 615p. 
<br/><br/> 'Knowledgeable and stunning' Orhan Pamuk<br/><br/>'A masterpiece of the historian's craft' The Nation<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780141979984 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cotton trade
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.4767721 BEC