Empire of Cotton: A Global History. By Sven Beckert. 2014. Vintage, New York, NY. 615 pp.

  • Eugene N. Anderson Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.

Author Biography

Eugene N. Anderson, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
Eugene N. Anderson is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

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Published
2017-09-19
How to Cite
Anderson, E. N. (2017). Empire of Cotton: A Global History. By Sven Beckert. 2014. Vintage, New York, NY. 615 pp. Ethnobiology Letters, 8(1), 97–100. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.8.1.2017.1068
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