The heart of Sven Beckert's new book, The Empire of Cotton is about how the history of cotton illuminates the history of capitalism and by extension the modern world. Beckert writes, "European trade in cotton textiles tied together Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe in a complex commercial web. Never before in the four millennia of the history of cotton had such a globe-spanning system been invented.
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