Empire of Cotton. King Cotton, englische Ausgabe

Autori

• Sven Beckert

Parametri

• 640 pagine
• 23 ore di lettura

• Economia e affari
• Saggistica
• Scienze politiche & Politica
• Storia
• Storia del mondo

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"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"--

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2014

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