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Empire of Cotton

A Global History
  • Sven Beckert
2015
Vintage

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Cotton plants.
Journal Article

Understanding Capitalism Through Cotton

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity helps us understand how capitalism emerged.
by Sven Beckert, Livia Gershon, Eric Vanhaute via JSTOR Daily on September 25, 2023
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