Publisher: Viking, 2005
ISBN0670033677, 9780670033676
398 pages --  Approx. size: 8.5 by 6"
 
Cotton has touched off wars and revolutions, inspired astonishing inventions, laid waste to entire ecosystems, and enslaved untold millions of people. Today, cotton is, if anything, more preeminent than ever and at the center of raging global controversies.

By the mid-nineteenth century, the vast plantations of the antebellum South, the grim mill towns of New England, and the soot-spewing factories of the English Midlands were knit together in a global system of exploitation and enslavement—all of it based on cotton. When Marx and Engels composed The Communist Manifesto, they chose cotton manufacturing as the prime symbol of capitalism run amok. Beautifully researched and written, Big Cottontraces the cultural, economic, and social history of the “world’s friendliest” fiber from the kingdoms of Mesopotamia to the Gap.

Illustrated with wonderful artwork and photographs. Excellent gift idea. Beautiful condition with original jacket. The book looks as new but does show a black remainder mark next to spine underneath. Jacket is in very good condition.

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