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Empire of Cotton: A Global History

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- By Sven Beckert
- Narrated By Jim Frangione
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- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 12-02-14
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History

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Here is the story of how, 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 and the enslavement of African workers to crucially recast the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia. We see how industrial capitalism then reshaped these worlds of cotton into an empire, and how this empire transformed the world.
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

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- By Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
- Narrated By William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pam Ward, Ron Butler
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

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During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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