Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375414142
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
"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, [in which the author explores] 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"--