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2014., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 338.476 B395e Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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. 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. War capitalism shaped the rise of cotton, and was used as a lever to transform the world. The constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, farmers and merchants, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the modern world. A book as unsettling and disturbing as it is enlightening, weaving together the story of cotton with how the present world came to exist"--Provided by publisher.
