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Empire of cotton : A new history of global captalism / Sven Beckert.

By: Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, c 2014Edition: 1st editionDescription: xxii, 615 p. : ill. ; 20cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141979984
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1 23 BEC
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Table of content

Introduction
Chapter 1
The role of a global commodity

Chapter 2
Building war capitalism

Chapter 3
The wages of war capitalism

Chapter 4
Capturing labor, conquring land

Chapter 5
Slevary takes command

Chapter 6
Industrial capitalism takes wing

Chapter 7
Mobilising industrial labor

Chapter 8
Making cotton global

Chapter 9
A war reverberates around the world

Chapter 10
Global reconstruction

Chapter 11
Destruction

Chapter 12
The new cotton imperialism

Chapter 13
The return of the global south

chapter 14
The weave and the weft : an epilogue

Index : P 589-612

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