Empire of Cotton: A Global History -- Sven Beckert, Paperback
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
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780375713965
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/27/2015 pg. 24
About the Author
SVEN BECKERT is the Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University. Holding a PhD from Columbia University, he has written widely on the economic, social, and political history of capitalism. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from Harvard Business School, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He was also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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