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The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
March 5, 2010 @ 12:00 am
This lecture is part of the Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy series.
Sven Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). He organizes the biannual History of Capitalism Conferences hosted by the Department of History at Harvard University.
A copy of Beckert’s path breaking 2004 AHR essay, “Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War” will shortly be posted on the web site of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
As usual, a light lunch will be served
Nelson Lichtenstein
Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
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