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Language: en
Pages: 561
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-26 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-06 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastat
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and
Language: en
Pages: 417
Pages: 417
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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