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Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
Big Cotton How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes Wrecked Civilizations and Put America on the Map
Author: Stephen Yafa
Cotton has touched off wars and revolutions, inspired astonishing inventions, laid waste to entire ecosystems, and enslaved untold millions of people. Alexander the Great carried cotton cloth on his back from India to Europe. Starting from the late eighteenth century, the fiber transformed creaky rural England into the greatest industrial pow...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670033676
ISBN-10: 0670033677
Publication Date: 12/29/2004
Pages: 448
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2.8 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book was a stem-winder. It was frightfully fixated on some areas and quite lazy in its coverage of others. It focused much on the writer's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts and on the Boston Associates, but it summarized the postwar South in terms that really understated its horror and repeated the now rejected old saws about the South's massive corruption at the hands of the Reconstruction authorities. It was picaresque in its colorful writing, but it was not altogether trustworthy in its characterizations or facts.
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