@newspaperarticle {344621,
	title = {Book review: {\textquoteleft}Empire of Cotton: A Global History,{\textquoteright} by Sven Beckert},
	journal = {Washington Post},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {Global history is very much the fashion in leading university history departments today. Some of them seek to replace courses in Western civilization with classes in global history{\textemdash}but usually such courses have to be team-taught by a variety of specialists, since so few individual academics have such a broad reach. {\textquotedblleft}Empire of Cotton{\textquotedblright} proves Sven Beckert one of the new elite of genuinely global historians.},
	url = {http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-empire-of-cotton-a-global-history-by-sven-beckert/2015/01/08/1ed81006-7b1e-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html},
	author = {Sven Beckert}
}
