Capitalism and its new historians: A review essay

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-227
Author(s):  
Shubham Sharma

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism (New York, NY: Penguin), 2014, 640 pp., £28 (Hb). Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 2013, 515 pp., £15 (Hb). Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of Capitalism (New York, NY: Basic Books), 2014, 560 pp., £44 (Hb).

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