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Riello (history, Univ. of Warwick, UK; A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century) examines in impressive detail how cotton became the first truly global commodity and industry, owing primarily to European capital, coordination, and successful exploitation of human and natural resources. Focusing on the 16th through 18th centuries, he maps the slow, nonlinear transition from the family-oriented "old cotton system" of India and China to the gl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More