Sven Beckert creates a single seamless narrative concerning cotton as a crop and a manufacture, which united and divided colonialism and the contrasting worlds of the Global South and the North. His narrative brings out the dialectics of capitalism through which, for example, colonial exploitation gave rise to ideologies of economic nationalism. Empire of Cotton introduces new perspectives to stimulate further research concerning commodity frontiers and commodity chains by emphasizing the role of the state in the emergence of capitalism and the enabling use of violence at the frontiers themselves.

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棉花帝国与全球农村

斯文·贝克特 (Sven Beckert) 创造了一个关于棉花作为作物和制造品的单一无缝叙事，它将殖民主义和全球南方和北方的对比世界统一和分裂。他的叙述揭示了资本主义的辩证法，例如，通过这种辩证法，殖民剥削产生了经济民族主义的意识形态。棉花帝国引入了新的视角，通过强调国家在资本主义出现中的作用以及在边境本身允许使用暴力来刺激对商品前沿和商品链的进一步研究。