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You also agree to our Terms of Service. The search for more good cotton-growing soil in areas that today are such states as Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma was a powerful incentive to force Native Americans off their traditional lands and onto reservations, another form of violence by the “military-cotton complex.” Beckert’s coinage seems not far-fetched when he points out that by 1850, two-thirds of American cotton was grown on land that had been taken over by the United States since the beginning of the century. At first, I was cautious. ‘Empire of Cotton: A Global History’ by Sven Beckert (Knopf) “Empire of Cotton” starts by describing cotton cultivation and the trade in cotton textiles going back to the Bronze Age. Thomas Baring of Britain, one of the world’s leading cotton merchants. Emancipation and empire: Reconstructing in worldwide web of cotton production in the age of the American Civil War. Your story matters Citation Beckert, Sven. Overview. . 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