#  Faculty Associate and WIGH Co-Chair Publishes New Book 

 





December 05, 2014

 

 

[Weatherhead Initiative on Global History](https://www.facebook.com/WIGlobalHistory) Co-Chair Sven Beckert's new book, *Em**pire of Cotton: A Global History,* was published this month by Knopf. The book tells 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. [Read More](http://wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/empire-cotton)...



 

 

 



 

 

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