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Penguin (Non-Classics). Trade Paperback. 0143037226 Publishers Weekly In the beginning was the plant?Gossypium malavaceae. From this common variety of swamp mallow came the fiber that brought success and hardship in equal measure to the humans who domesticated it. Screenwriter and journalist Yafa lyrically tells a tale of slimy merchants, corrupt politicians and downtrodden farmers and workers upon whose backs huge fortunes were made. Coming from a Europe starved for cotton fabrics, Christopher Columbus exploited the American natives' mastery of the plant. The Puritans of New England entered into the slave trade to finance their insatiable need for cotton cloth. And in the American South an entire civilization was based on "King Cotton": a flourishing slaveholding civilization featuring ostentatious plantation houses stuffed with the goods of conspicuous consumption. The cruelty and reward, Yafa shows, continue to this day. Cotton farmers in Mali are impoverished due in large part to U.S. government subsidies to corporate agribusiness. But despite much fascinating information, the book disappoints. Yafa has jammed his narrative with too many wild characters, outrageous stories and goofy personal asides. Some may tire quickly of the details of warp and weft and the workings of the spinning jenny. Yet for all the flaws of the single-lensed view of history, Yafa tells a tale that covers a wide, dramatic swath. The Wall Street Journal I have to hand it to Mr. Yafa. Cotton rules. Review I have to hand it to Mr. Yafa. Cotton rules. (The Wall Street Journal) With wit and intelligence, Yafa demonstrates how a good deal of history can be learned by following a single thread. (The Washington Post) A comprehensive and often surprising history [of a crop that changed the world]. (USA Today) USA Today A comprehensive and often surprising history [of a crop that changed the world]. Book Description In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky?s Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world?s most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin Klein?s empire and the Gap, Stephen Yafa?s Cotton gives us an intimate look at the plant that fooled Columbus into thinking he?d reached India, that helped start the Industrial Revolution as well as the American Civil War, and that made at least one bug?the boll weevil?world famous. A sweeping chronicle of ingenuity, greed, conflict, and opportunism, Cotton offers ?a barrage of fascinating information? (Los Angeles Times). BookList From BookList, December 15, 2004, Copyright © American Library Association. Used with permission. *Starred Review* Versatile writer and journalist Yafa has produced a meticulous history of cotton, the scrawny plant that transformed global economies. Beginning with a lesson on domesticated cotton, Yafa briskly outlines the fiber's contributions to Old and New World textile history. Jumping ahead to 1660, the story covers the cotton chintz craze of Central and Northern Europe, a fad that laid the groundwork for cotton to overtake wool as the fabric of choice. Cotton changed the production of English textiles from a rural enterprise into an automated industry, so that by 1771 the grim mills that would so influence Charles Dickens were employing children as young as eight. As the cotton trade boomed, industrial piracy brought English technology to the U.S., leading Yafa to recount the interrelated stories of New England cotton mills and slave labor in the South. Yafa is at his best when discussing the process of domesticating cotton, cotton's influence on the blues, the popularity of denim, and the exceptional people who tamed cotton, but he succeeds in combining terrific prose with impressive research throughout this first-rate history of the ?humble fiber.? RebeccaMaksel. About the Author Stephen Yafa, a novelist, playwright, video producer, and award-winning screenwriter, has written for Playboy, Rolling Stone, Details, Wine Country Living, and the San Francisco Chronicle. . New. 2006. (more information)

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