Big Cotton How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map Hardback - 2004
de Stephen Yafa
Cotton has touched off wars and revolutions, inspired astonishing inventions, laid waste to entire ecosystems, and enslaved untold millions of people. Alexander the Great carried cotton cloth on his back from India to Europe. Starting from the late eighteenth century, the fiber transformed creaky rural England into the greatest industrial power on earth. Today, cotton is, if anything, more preeminent than ever and at the center of raging global controversies. Now Stephen Yafa delves deep into the past to tell the amazing story of this humble, infinitely adaptable fiber that has again and again reinvented our world.
Domesticated simultaneously in Peru and Pakistan some 5,500 years ago, later a prime motive for the colonization of the New World, as Yafa shows, cotton's most profound impact came after the Industrial Revolution. 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 Cotton traces the cultural, economic, and social history of the 'world's friendliest' fiber from the kingdoms of Mesopotamia to the Gap.
Primera línea
For a scrawny, gangling plant that produces hairs about as insubstantial as milkweed, cotton has exerted a mighty hold over human events since it was first domesticated about 5,500 years ago in Asia, Africa, and South America.
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- Título Big Cotton How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
- Autor Stephen Yafa
- Encuadernación Hardback
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 416
- Idioma EN
- Editorial Viking Adult, New York
- Fecha de publicación December 29, 2004
- ISBN 9780670033676
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