Big Cotton
Subtitle: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
Edition: First edition edition
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: December 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780670033676
Subjects: United States - General; History - General History; History: American; World - General; History / United States / General; History; Cotton manufacture; Cotton textile industry; United States
First sentence: For a scrawny, gangling plant that produces hairs about as insubstantial as milkweed, cotton has exerted a mighty hold over human events since it was first domesticated about 5,500 years ago in Asia, Africa, and South America.