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Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Reductionist Summary
Historian Sven Beckert’s widely acclaimed book, Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism, is a good agrarian, business, and labour history of a single commodity. But as economic history it’s not so good.
Posted in cotton, cotton textiles, Empire of Cotton, global history, historians of capitalism, Sven Beckert
Tagged cotton, deindustrialization, Economic Development, Empire of Cotton, global history, great divergence, historians of capitalism, Industrial Revolution, Rise of the West, Sven Beckert
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