Empire of cotton, a global history, Sven Beckert
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Empire of cotton, a global history, Sven Beckert
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history
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Empire of cotton
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Sven Beckert
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a global history
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The story of how, 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. Beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas
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