num_pages: 398
description: A history of cotton's impact on the world describes how the fiber has been at the center of conflict and controversy, rendering nations into industrial powers, in a chronicle that documents cotton's domestication some 5,500 years ago, its key role in the colonization of the New World, and its post-Industrial Revolution part in transforming communities, prompting innovations, and promoting slavery. 40,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
titlecomplete: Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
genres: History, Social, Economics, American History, Microhistory, Science, Nonfiction, Natural History
ratings_count: 265
publisher: Viking Adult