Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America On the Map

New York: Viking, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 5x1x8. First edition. Faint stains on jacket sine and rear jacket panel. 2005 Hard Cover. xiv, 398 pp. 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, in a chronicle that documents cotton's domestication some 5,500 years ago, its key role in the colonization of the New World, and its post-Industrial Revolution part in transforming communities, prompting innovations, and promoting slavery.