Empire of Cotton, Paperback

Now in paperback, this is a history of the cotton industry, and the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It won ...

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

Reducere. In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

Reducere. DescriptionA rich and ambitious history reframing the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of the British empire, and the emergence of industrial c...

Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalisation with Westernisation and presume that the global economy is a pure Weste...

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...