Empire of Cotton 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 經濟史 曆史 全球史 英文原版 世界史 社會史 經濟 美國
發表於2025-03-17
Empire of Cotton 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2025
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。
評分討論作為全球商品的棉花,覆蓋麵比較廣,英國和美國部分較為詳細。寫得很流暢,但像這類以單一主題闡述全球史的題目,還是覺得流暢的敘事是在簡化曆史,而不是還原曆史復雜性。書比較長,可另行參閱作者在AHR上的文章,論點基本相同。
評分這本書一齣版就獲得空前成功。作為一本專注於特定商品的曆史書,這本書勝在豐富的數據和高水平的學術標準。通過紮實的數據,這本書說明瞭棉花工業催化下的近現代資本主義進程。
評分資本和國傢共同締造的棉花帝國。
評分研究階段所收集的資料量確實恐怖,但最終呈現的效果上感覺材料堆疊多於流暢的敘事與分析,摺中的風格對大眾和學者都不怎麼友好,但還是很值得plow through的一本書。
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.
公元11世纪之前,欧洲几乎没人见过棉花。从铜器时代到中世纪,那里的人们就一直穿由亚麻、兽皮或羊毛织成的衣物,进口的棉布非常罕见。在中世纪的民间传说中,棉花是如此遥远神秘,以至于人们认为它是长一种动植物杂交体“羊树”上的:白天,树端结出的棉羊在阳光下静静生长;...
評分从地理环境上看,寒冷、潮湿的英国像其他欧洲国家一样,并不适合种植棉花。但是,利物浦却曾经是世界上最重要的棉花贸易枢纽,以英国为代表的欧洲诸国也曾经主导全球的棉花产业。 乍看起来,这个现象很怪异,连基本的棉花原料都不能生产,怎么把这个行业做这么大呢?可是,先天...
評分从地理环境上看,寒冷、潮湿的英国像其他欧洲国家一样,并不适合种植棉花。但是,利物浦却曾经是世界上最重要的棉花贸易枢纽,以英国为代表的欧洲诸国也曾经主导全球的棉花产业。 乍看起来,这个现象很怪异,连基本的棉花原料都不能生产,怎么把这个行业做这么大呢?可是,先天...
評分文/宝木笑 想象风起萍末时的青涩和扶摇万里后的豪迈,也许是历史最为吸引人的地方。比如我们喜欢看到的历史是这样的:1328年10月21日,一个男婴降生在了一个贫苦的家庭,他是家中第四个孩子,在整个同姓赤贫家族中排行老八,小时候差点饿死的他不会想到,25年后他会参加一支起...
評分Empire of Cotton 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2025