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Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism Collection_LGBTQ+ History crushing defeatEmpire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant case history of how the world works. Author: Sven Beckert For about 900 years, from 1,000 to 1,900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked