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Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Capitalism: A Global History

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Industrial smokestacks crowd a port city.

Capitalism Had a Beginning and Will Someday End

On where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down.

by Sven Beckert, Loren Balhorn via Jacobin on April 1, 2026

Cotton plants.

Understanding Capitalism Through Cotton

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

by Sven Beckert, Livia Gershon, Eric Vanhaute via JSTOR Daily on September 25, 2023

Man carrying bundle of sugarcane over his head walking on plank in Guyana sugarcane fields

The Capitalist Transformations of the Countryside

Centuries of capitalism saw the global countryside ruthlessly converted into cheap commodities. But at what cost?

by Sven Beckert via Aeon on October 6, 2022

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