@newspaperarticle {338956,
	title = {{\textquoteleft}Empire of Cotton,{\textquoteright} by Sven Beckert},
	journal = {International New York Times},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {The history of an era often seems defined by a particular commodity. The 18th century certainly belonged to sugar. The race to cultivate it in the West Indies was, in the words of the French Enlightenment writer Guillaume-Thomas de Raynal, {\textquotedblleft}the principal cause of the rapid movement which stirs the Universe.{\textquotedblright} In the 20th century and beyond, the commodity has been oil: determining events from the Allied partitioning of the Middle East after World War I to Hitler{\textquoteright}s drive for Balkan and Caspian wells to the forging of our own fateful ties to the regimes of the Persian Gulf.},
	url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/books/review/empire-of-cotton-by-sven-beckert.html},
	author = {Sven Beckert}
}
