Empire of Cotton

Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0375414142

"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism, [in which the author explores] 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"--

The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Paul Mantoux
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136585664

This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distinct parts, it covers: * Preparatory Changes * Inventions and Factories * The Immediate Consequences. A valuable reference, it is, as Professor T. S. Ashton says in his preface to this work, 'in both its architecture and detail this volume is by far the best introduction to the subject in any language... one of a few works on economic history that can justly be spoken of as classics'.