Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

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, ye…

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