Empire of Cotton: A Global History

by Sven Beckert

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE - A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.

"Masterly ... An astonishing achievement." --The New York Times

The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375713964
• ISBN13: 9780375713965
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"