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Beckert, Sven.
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Cotton textile industry -- History.
Cotton trade -- History.
Cotton plantation workers -- History.
Slavery -- Economic aspects -- History.
Textile workers.
Labor -- History.
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Beckert, Sven.
Cotton textile industry -- History.
Cotton trade -- History.
Cotton plantation workers -- History.
Slavery -- Economic aspects -- History.
Textile workers.
Labor -- History.
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Empire
of
cotton
[sound recording] : a
global
history
/ Sven Beckert.
by
Beckert, Sven.
HighBridge Audio, p2014.
Call #:
COMPACT DISC 338.4767713 B396e
Subjects
Cotton
textile industry --
History
.
Cotton
trade --
History
.
Cotton
plantation workers --
History
.
Slavery -- Economic aspects --
History
.
Textile workers.
Labor --
History
.
ISBN:
9781622316328
1622316320
Format:
[sound recording] :
Edition:
Unabridged.
Description:
17 compact discs (20:15 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Performers:
Read by Jim Frangione.
Summary:
The story of how, 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. Beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas.
Genre:
Microhistory.
Adult books on CD.
Other authors:
Frangione, James.
HighBridge Audio (Firm)
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0
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Status
Tantallon Public Library
Adult Nonfiction on CD
COMPACT DISC 338.4767713 B396e
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