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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Europeans discovered cotton later than others, yet once they did, they globalized it worldwide for all
Chapter 3: Mechanization divided the world into two
Chapter 4: By the early nineteenth century, the American South emerged as the world's foremost exporter of cotton to global markets
Chapter 5: Wage labor powered the industrial era in the United Kingdom
Chapter 6: Networked middlemen proved essential to a modernizing cotton industry
Chapter 7: The American Civil War reshaped the world’s cotton industry
Chapter 8: New economic systems arose around cotton after the end of slavery
Chapter 9: Colonial powers dramatically expanded cotton cultivation in the early twentieth century
Chapter 10: China and India rose in the early twentieth century as leading cotton producers and both still are today
Description
Empire of Cotton (2014) chronicles the long and complex history of that fluffy plant – cotton. These blinks detail how the cotton industry connected the world from Manchester, England, to rural India, while describing the incredible impact that cotton production has had on the development of economic systems.
Who Should Listen
- Historians, economists and political scientists
- People interested in the history of capitalism and globalization
- Anyone curious about the history of their jeans and T-shirts