WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST Winner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and...

"Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism" von Sven Beckert bietet eine umfassende Untersuchung der Geschichte des globalen Kapitalismus durch das Prisma der Baumwollindustrie. Beckert beschreibt, wie Baumwolle im 19....

In recent years historians across the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past, but despite these efforts, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global...