Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University. Holding a PhD from Columbia University, he has written widely on the economic, social, and political history of capitalism. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from Harvard Business School, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He was also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
发表于2024-12-22
Empire of Cotton 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
原载: 中华读书报,有少量改动。 数百年前,在棉花以自然的方式在全世界各地种植、加工的时候,人们不会意识到这个已经培育了数千年的农作物会对人类未来的生活产生如此巨大的影响。欧洲的自然气候不适合棉花生长,棉花在他们看来是一种遥远神秘的东方作物。中世纪的时候,民...
评分人要生存,衣食住行是必须品,在长达几千年的人类历史文化里,关于衣食住行的文化一直在不断的进化。当温饱问题得到了改善,人类更倾向于享受。如何更好的生活,享受衣食住行的便利和舒适成了人类去追逐的对象。 在原始社会,温饱问题一直是困扰人类生存的难题,如何不被饿死,...
评分哥伦布发现了新大陆,世界迅速变成一张“人类之网”。茶、咖啡、香料、白银……财富聚散,帝国兴衰,掀动一页页篇章。葡、西、英、法、荷等国在15世纪之后的沉浮,以及与之相联系的美洲、亚洲国家的命运,必然与这些物品有关。 “它们重塑了世界”,这个说法虽近于滥用,但确然...
评分 评分公元11世纪之前,欧洲几乎没人见过棉花。从铜器时代到中世纪,那里的人们就一直穿由亚麻、兽皮或羊毛织成的衣物,进口的棉布非常罕见。在中世纪的民间传说中,棉花是如此遥远神秘,以至于人们认为它是长一种动植物杂交体“羊树”上的:白天,树端结出的棉羊在阳光下静静生长;...
图书标签: 经济史 历史 全球史 英文原版 世界史 社会史 经济 美国
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of 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. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world.
The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.
能写出这样一本书还是满不容易的。。。
评分看完已经把细节都忘记了!
评分看了大半年才看完,通过棉花这一经济作物来描写历史,非常好的角度来阐述棉花帝国由起步到繁荣再到衰败的全过程。
评分嗯感觉很适合国内明清社会经济史的课程用来当个参考书?讲述了世界棉业如何整合成了整体,是个很不错的全球化故事。早期近代中国其实是在这个体系之外的。这让中国免于1860s的棉业波动,但也决定了在全球化大潮中中国长期落后于印度的局面……当然是福是祸也是两说。
评分资本和国家共同缔造的棉花帝国。
Empire of Cotton 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书