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Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University. Holding a PhD from Columbia University, he has written widely on the economic, social, and political history of capitalism. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from Harvard Business School, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He was also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 经济史
- 历史
- 全球史
- 英文原版
- 世界史
- 社会史
- 经济
- 美国
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world.
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. 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. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.
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文/宝木笑 想象风起萍末时的青涩和扶摇万里后的豪迈，也许是历史最为吸引人的地方。比如我们喜欢看到的历史是这样的：1328年10月21日，一个男婴降生在了一个贫苦的家庭，他是家中第四个孩子，在整个同姓赤贫家族中排行老八，小时候差点饿死的他不会想到，25年后他会参加一支起...
评分当平庸的经济学家开口就是亚当斯密的“看不见的手”时，他也许并没有思考一个问题，那些繁杂的市场分工到底是怎么形成的，以至于可以让一个资源匮乏的小岛国，变成了全世界的制造中心。 关于这个问题的答案或许有很多种，但一种强有力的解释是，当时的英国通过战争和枪炮下的贸...
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评分从地理环境上看，寒冷、潮湿的英国像其他欧洲国家一样，并不适合种植棉花。但是，利物浦却曾经是世界上最重要的棉花贸易枢纽，以英国为代表的欧洲诸国也曾经主导全球的棉花产业。 乍看起来，这个现象很怪异，连基本的棉花原料都不能生产，怎么把这个行业做这么大呢？可是，先天...
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把许多的历史换了一种方式组织了起来，读起来也挺有意思的
评分这本书一出版就获得空前成功。作为一本专注于特定商品的历史书，这本书胜在丰富的数据和高水平的学术标准。通过扎实的数据，这本书说明了棉花工业催化下的近现代资本主义进程。
评分嗯感觉很适合国内明清社会经济史的课程用来当个参考书？讲述了世界棉业如何整合成了整体，是个很不错的全球化故事。早期近代中国其实是在这个体系之外的。这让中国免于1860s的棉业波动，但也决定了在全球化大潮中中国长期落后于印度的局面……当然是福是祸也是两说。
评分看完已经把细节都忘记了！
评分能写出这样一本书还是满不容易的。。。
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