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這本書告訴我們:資本積纍是很血腥的
評分能寫齣這樣一本書還是滿不容易的。。。
評分資本和國傢共同締造的棉花帝國。
評分看瞭大半年纔看完,通過棉花這一經濟作物來描寫曆史,非常好的角度來闡述棉花帝國由起步到繁榮再到衰敗的全過程。
評分能寫齣這樣一本書還是滿不容易的。。。
Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University. Holding a PhD from Columbia University, he has written widely on the economic, social, and political history of capitalism. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from Harvard Business School, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He was also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. 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, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world.
The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.
现在一提起棉花都觉得平谈无奇,曾经的棉花地位曾火爆一时,有白金之称,其地位可见一斑。 棉花最早起源于印度,早期印度用棉花生产的棉织品,口碑也很好。后来被英国发现了,棉织品人人都用的的,于是开始了对棉花的大力推广。刚开始英国生产的棉织品质量不...
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