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Empire of Cotton

A Global History
Book • 2004
This book tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.

Beckert explores how European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen combined imperial expansion, slave labor, and new machines to transform the world's most significant manufacturing industry.

The book spans five thousand years of cotton's history, with a focus on the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, highlighting the international nature of the cotton industry and its impact on modern global capitalism.

It also delves into the concepts of 'war capitalism' and 'industrial capitalism' to explain how Europeans dominated global cotton networks through violent and diplomatic means.

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