Empire of cotton : a new history of global capitalism
by Sven Beckert.
- UK : Penguin Books, 2015.
- 615 p.
Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The Rise of Global Commodity Chapter 2. Building War Capitalism Chapter 3. The Wages of War Capitalism Chapter 4. Capturing Labor, Conquering Land Chapter 5. Slavery Takes Command Chapter 6. Industrial Capitalism Takes Wing Chapter 7. Mobilizing Industrial Labor Chapter 8. Making Cotton Global Chapter 9. A War Reverberates Around the World Chapter 10. Global Reconstruction Chapter 11. Destructions Chapter 12. The New Cotton Imperialism Chapter 13. The Return of the Global South Chapter 14. The Weave and the Weft: An Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index