Empire Of Cotton A New History Of Global Capitalism

This book is the story of the rise and fall of the European-dominated empire of cotton. But because of the centrality of cotton, its story is also the story of the making and remaking of global capitalism and with it of the modern world. In a remarkably brief period, enterprising enterpreneurs and powerful statesman in European recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry by combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers. Beginning well before the advent of machine production in 1780, these men created a potent war.