Thread: Literary Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
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Old 05-07-2018, 08:32 PM   #11
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Thanks for the links and the pointer to the Sarah Rose book.

Another commodity that has a dark history re Britain/India/China continuing to this day is cotton - Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton traces the economic history of the cotton trade up into the current era
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