Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
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ISBN: 0670033677 / Publisher: Viking Adult, December 2004
A history of cotton's impact on the world describes how the fiber has been at the center of conflict and controversy, rendering nations into industrial powers.
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A history of cotton's impact on the world describes how the fiber has been at the center of conflict and controversy, rendering nations into industrial powers, in a chronicle that documents cotton's domestication some 5,500 years ago, its key role in the colonization of the New World, and its post-Industrial Revolution part in transforming communities, prompting innovations, and promoting slavery. 40,000 first printing.
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