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Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism
- S. Beckert
- Engineering
- 29 October 2015
This book is the winner of the 2015 Bancroft Prize and the 2015 Philip Taft Prize. It was the finalist for the 2015 Pulizter Prize for History and short-listed for the 2015 Cundill Prize in… Expand
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
- S. Beckert
- History
- 2 December 2014
The cotton industry is fundamental to the development of global capitalism and broadly shaped the world we live in today. It is therefore important to realise the extent to which this depended on the… Expand
AHR Conversation: On Transnational History
- C. Bayly, S. Beckert, M. Connelly, Isabel Hofmeyr, Wendy Kozol, P. Seed
- History
- 1 December 2006
This year, the AHR inaugurates what we hope to be an annual “Conversation” on topics of wide interest to historians. Inspired by our sister journal, the Journal of American History, which two years… Expand
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie
- S. Beckert
- Political Science
- 19 March 2001
Introduction Part I. Manners, Fortunes, Politics: 1. Accumulating capital 2. Negotiating the New Metropolis 3. The politics of capital Part II. Reluctant Revolutionaries: 4. Bourgeois New Yorkers go… Expand
Chapter 8. “What have we to do with slavery?” New Englanders and the Slave Economies of the West Indies
- Eric Kimball, S. Beckert, S. Rockman
- Geography
- 31 January 2016
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
- S. Beckert, S. Rockman
- Political Science
- 1 August 2016
American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950American Danger
- S. Beckert
- History
- 1 October 2017
Chapter 2. Slavery’s Scientific Management Masters and Managers
- Caitlin Rosenthal, S. Beckert, S. Rockman
- Political Science
- 31 January 2016