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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.
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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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原载： 中华读书报，有少量改动。 数百年前，在棉花以自然的方式在全世界各地种植、加工的时候，人们不会意识到这个已经培育了数千年的农作物会对人类未来的生活产生如此巨大的影响。欧洲的自然气候不适合棉花生长，棉花在他们看来是一种遥远神秘的东方作物。中世纪的时候，民...
評分原载： 中华读书报，有少量改动。 数百年前，在棉花以自然的方式在全世界各地种植、加工的时候，人们不会意识到这个已经培育了数千年的农作物会对人类未来的生活产生如此巨大的影响。欧洲的自然气候不适合棉花生长，棉花在他们看来是一种遥远神秘的东方作物。中世纪的时候，民...
評分 評分 評分哥伦布发现了新大陆，世界迅速变成一张“人类之网”。茶、咖啡、香料、白银……财富聚散，帝国兴衰，掀动一页页篇章。葡、西、英、法、荷等国在15世纪之后的沉浮，以及与之相联系的美洲、亚洲国家的命运，必然与这些物品有关。 “它们重塑了世界”，这个说法虽近于滥用，但确然...
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