Beckert's Empire of Cotton Is in the News
January 7th, 2015
Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, has been in the news often in recent days in relation to his new book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Knopf, December 2014). Here is a compendium to date:
- the book was reviewed in the Sunday New York Times by Adam Hochschild; and in "Books of the Times" by Thomas Bender;
- by Wendy Smith in the Boston Globe;
- by Eric Herschthal for Slate in "The Fabric of Our Lives";
- by Timothy Shenk as part of a review essay in The Nation on "Apostles of Growth";
- by Karen Long in Newsday;
- in The Economist;
- by Daniel Walker Howe in the Washington Post
- the book was featured by Andrew Smith in his blog, "The Past Speaks"
- Beckert was interviewed about the book by Diane Rehm for her NPR program;
- he was also interviewed in the NYTimes Book Review podcast about the book;
- he published an essay based on his book in The Atlantic;
- he published an essay, "Slavery and Capitalism," in the Chronicle Review
Beckert is also co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism and of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard.
