Empire of Cotton / Sven Beckert

Public ISBD Titre : Empire of Cotton : A new History of Global Capitalism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sven Beckert, Auteur Editeur : London [UK] : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 614 p Note générale : 03.01 BEC Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Industrie textile  Agriculture  Manufacture  Mondialisation  Société  Histoire économique  Histoire sociale Index. décimale : 03.01 COMMERCE / MONDIALISATION Généralités Résumé : The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism. Empire of Cotton : A new History of Global Capitalism [texte imprimé] / Sven Beckert, Auteur . - London (UK) : Penguin Books, 2014 . - 614 p. 03.01 BEC Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Industrie textile  Agriculture  Manufacture  Mondialisation  Société  Histoire économique  Histoire sociale Index. décimale : 03.01 COMMERCE / MONDIALISATION Généralités Résumé : The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.

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