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Big Cotton, by Stephen Yafa
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" "The story of cotton, from the beginnings to its place in modern geopolitics….Well-told, effectively documented survey of a major historical subject."
Whether you're eating ice cream, changing diapers, handling paper money, polishing fingernails, reading a book, or getting dressed for the day you're using cotton. At any given time everyone on earth is wearing or using something made with cotton.
In BIG COTTON: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations and Put America on the Map (Viking On Sale: January 3, 2005; $24.95; 398 pages) author Stephen Yafa explores the extraordinary range of imagination and ingenuity required to convert a fluffy mass of fiber into a substance of unbelievable versatility. He traces cotton's journey from its first domestication about 5,500 years ago in Asia, Africa, and South America, through the conflicts that led to the American Civil War, and finally examines its role nano-technology and bio-engineering-hot button topics in today's global economy. Yafa reveals to us how cotton has dictated the economy, carved the environmental state, and been a key player in international relations for thousands of years.
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