Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Bookshelf: “Empire of Cotton” by Sven Beckert
By Ernst Langthaler Among the books that have recently widened and deepened my historical knowledge the most is Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton. Drawing on a broad base of research in numerous archives and on a wealth of literature, the author follows the traces of cotton through the last millennia and across continents. He shows…