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Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America On the Map
de Yafa, Stephen
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670033677
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033676
- Librería
-
Webster, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Viking, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 5x1x8. First edition. Faint stains on jacket sine and rear jacket panel. 2005 Hard Cover. xiv, 398 pp. A history of cotton's impact on the world describes how the fiber has been at the center of conflict and controversy, rendering nations into industrial powers, in a chronicle that documents cotton's domestication some 5,500 years ago, its key role in the colonization of the New World, and its post-Industrial Revolution part in transforming communities, prompting innovations, and promoting slavery.
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- Librería
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2316626
- Título
- Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America On the Map
- Autor
- Yafa, Stephen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0670033677
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033676
- Editorial
- Viking
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Tamaño
- 5x1x8
- Palabras clave
- COTTON WORLD HISTORY ECONOMICS AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTILES INDUSTRIES
- X weight
- 21 oz
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Yesterday's Muse Books
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Webster, New York
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