EMPIRE OF COTTON: A GLOBAL HISTORY BY SVEN BECKERT POPSOCKET Biespiel has crafted a hip

Biespiel has crafted a hip

In this simple tomb

Annie Oakley

and in With the Lapps in the High Mountains she memorably portrays people

has been reminiscent of the horrific fascist displays of the 1930s

EMPIRE OF COTTON: A GLOBAL HISTORY BY SVEN BECKERT POPSOCKET Biespiel has crafted a hip"Masterly. . . . Deeply researched and eminently readable, Empire of Cotton gives new insight into the relentless expansion of global capitalism. With graceful prose and a clear and compelling argument, Beckert not only charts the expansion of cotton capitalism . . . he addresses the conditions of enslaved workers in the fields and wage workers in the factories. An astonishing achievement." Thomas Bender, New York Times "Important . . . a major work