Sven Beckert on the "Empire of Cotton"

Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton: it's one of the most keenly anticipated works of history this year, and you can read an adapted excerpt here at The Atlantic.

The Toynbee Prize Foundation will be featuring an in-depth review of the book in weeks to come–we're busy preparing a number of other Interviews with Global Historians–but readers interested in getting an idea of this ambitious, important work are strongly suggested to check out this except from Empire of Cotton: A Global History.