Empire of Cotton

A New History of Global Capitalism

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Beschreibung

WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE <br>WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZE<br>FINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATURE<br>Economist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015'Knowledgeable and stunning' Orhan Pamuk 'A masterpiece of the historian's craft' The Nation<br>For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high. Sven Beckert's superb new book is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141979984

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 126 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)