Sven Beckert
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here...
2) The monied metropolis: New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Social classes, like fortunes, are made and remade, and invariably the two are linked. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, this book brings to light a neglected - and critical - chapter in the social history of the United States: the rise of an American bourgeoisie."
"How a small and diverse group of New Yorkers came to wield unprecedented economic, social, and political power...