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Cotton manufacture, Cotton textile industry, HistoryShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
2005, Viking Press
Hardcover
in English
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1419333216 9781419333217
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Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
December 29, 2004, Viking Adult
Hardcover
in English
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0670033677 9780670033676
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"For a scrawny, gangling plant that produces hairs about as insubstantial as milkweed, cotton has exerted a mighty hold over human events since it was first domesticated about 5,500 years ago in Asia, Africa, and South America."
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