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