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Cotton - The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Cotton - The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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In the tradition of Mark Kurlanskyas "Cod" and "Salt," this
endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as
ordinary is the worldas most powerful cash crop, and that it has
shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500
years ago to its influence in creating Calvin Kleinas empire and
the Gap, Stephen Yafaas "Cotton" gives us an intimate look at the
plant that fooled Columbus into thinking head reached India, that
helped start the Industrial Revolution as well as the American
Civil War, and that made at least one bugathe boll weevilaworld
famous. A sweeping chronicle of ingenuity, greed, conflict, and
opportunism, "Cotton" offers aa barrage of fascinating informationa
("Los Angeles Times").
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