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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Beckert, Sven, author.     Subjects     Cotton textile industry -- History.     Cotton trade -- History.     Cotton plantation workers -- History.     Slavery -- Economic aspects.     Enslaved persons.     Textile workers.     Capitalism -- History.     Labor -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Beckert, Sven, author.       by title:      Empire of cotton : a...         MARC Display

Empire of cotton : a global history / Sven Beckert. by Beckert, Sven, author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Subjects Cotton textile industry -- History.   Cotton trade -- History.   Cotton plantation workers -- History.   Slavery -- Economic aspects.   Enslaved persons.   Textile workers.   Capitalism -- History.   Labor -- History. ISBN:  9780375414145 (hardback) : 0375414142 (hardback) Description:  xxii, 615 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.47677 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 338.47677 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.47677 Beckert Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.47677 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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