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Big cotton : how a humble fiber created fortunes, wrecked civilizations, and put America on the map

A history of cotton's impact on the world describes how the fiber has been at the center of conflict and controversy, rendering nations into industrial powers

Print Book, English, ©2005
Viking, New York, ©2005