Introduction ix
Chapter 1 The Rise of a Global Commodity 3
Chapter 2 Building War Capitalism 29
Chapter 3 The Wages of War Capitalism 56
Chapter 4 Capturing Labor, Conquering Land 83
Chapter 5 Slavery Takes Command 98
Chapter 6 Industrial Capitalism Takes Wing 136
Chapter 7 Mobilizing Industrial Labor 175
Chapter 8 Making Cotton Global 199
Chapter 9 A War Reverberates Around the World 242
Chapter 10 Global Reconstruction 274
Chapter 11 Destructions 312
Chapter 12 The New Cotton Imperialism 340
Chapter 13 The Return of the Global South 379
Chapter 14 The Weave and the Weft: An Epilogue 427
Acknowledgments 445
Notes 449
Index 589