出版社: Knopf
副标题: A Global History
出版年: 2014-12-2
页数: 640
定价: USD 35.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375414145
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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, ...
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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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 th...
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.
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1 有用 dow 2020-01-28 18:36:26
这本书告诉我们:资本积累是很血腥的
0 有用 GW_Parables 2020-01-31 21:06:53
瞎看着玩的..此书用棉花做载体..讨论了世界贸易和资本主义的起源..看完才发现 这书适合我小孩们看...
0 有用 Rilkelee 2016-04-04 01:51:52
研究阶段所收集的资料量确实恐怖,但最终呈现的效果上感觉材料堆叠多于流畅的叙事与分析,折中的风格对大众和学者都不怎么友好,但还是很值得plow through的一本书。
17 有用 在夏夜 2016-01-27 16:11:51
现在这什么东西都号称写the rise and fall of sth,感觉就像小时候身边每个大人都说“这小孩儿是我看着长大的”一样
2 有用 Vamei 2015-12-23 11:38:56
这本书一出版就获得空前成功。作为一本专注于特定商品的历史书,这本书胜在丰富的数据和高水平的学术标准。通过扎实的数据,这本书说明了棉花工业催化下的近现代资本主义进程。
0 有用 Accélération 2024-03-22 14:59:25 北京
美国种族史课堂重读,伴随两篇review文章,前者质疑作为19世纪资本主义中心的奴隶制是否是“起源”,并且认为划清资本主义概念和历史边界,才能使资本主义denaturalize,后者则指出其选择性引用如Eric Williams代表的black radical thought,依附理论和对自由帝国主义的批判,却没有追上 capital’s own dreadfully crea-tive tran... 美国种族史课堂重读,伴随两篇review文章,前者质疑作为19世纪资本主义中心的奴隶制是否是“起源”,并且认为划清资本主义概念和历史边界,才能使资本主义denaturalize,后者则指出其选择性引用如Eric Williams代表的black radical thought,依附理论和对自由帝国主义的批判,却没有追上 capital’s own dreadfully crea-tive transmutations. (展开)
0 有用 QuietAmbassa 2024-02-27 01:36:53 美国
3.5 quite a comprehensive, global, up-to-date history of cotton. What a bloody crop. I don’t think I retained that much info.
0 有用 我只在乎qkljsj 2023-08-28 09:57:37 美国
很久之前读的了,都有点忘了。
0 有用 BuBBle_Bro 2023-06-12 15:14:43 浙江
IPE 我好相似…
0 有用 Hanthaway 2023-02-28 11:15:12 美国
贝克特的宏大图景的确值得叹服。但似乎忽略了中国鸦片战争后的棉花生产,以及二次世界大战对棉花帝国造成了如何的冲击,也没有提到。总体是有趣的,我很喜欢。