Empire of Cotton pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
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.
- 經濟史
- 曆史
- 全球史
- 英文原版
- 世界史
- 社會史
- 經濟
- 美國
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.
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缘起 自从读过《看的见的手》后，我就偏爱阅读行业史。这一本棉花帝国是讲述棉纺织行业的兴衰变迁，自然不能错过。 预期 了解棉花、棉纺织业的历史变迁，如果这本书足够优秀，也希望看到商业组织和与之相关的权力组织的变迁。 体验 读书时候的一些感悟随想已经发在条目下的读书...
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...
評分哥伦布发现了新大陆，世界迅速变成一张“人类之网”。茶、咖啡、香料、白银……财富聚散，帝国兴衰，掀动一页页篇章。葡、西、英、法、荷等国在15世纪之后的沉浮，以及与之相联系的美洲、亚洲国家的命运，必然与这些物品有关。 “它们重塑了世界”，这个说法虽近于滥用，但确然...
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全球史……胃口很大的一本書……
评分Witt的Legal Historiography裏竟然要求讀這本書...可讀性很高，把modern capitalism興起的明麵和暗麵都點到瞭，epilogue裏講傢長帶著小孩子們去參觀cotton mill時已無法想象百年前童工在此辛勤勞動時的場景，頗有些觸動。
评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。
评分Roles of violence and the state in war capitalism of pre-industrial era.
评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。
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