Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Walker & Co., 1997); Allan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin, Glass: A World History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002); Stephen Yaffa, Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map (New York: Penguin, 2005); Erik Orsenna, Voyage aux pays du coton: Petit précis de mondialisation (Paris: Fayard, 2006); Iain Gateley, Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization (New York: Grove, 2001); Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Kaffee: Die Biographie eines weltwirtschaftlichen Stoffes (Munich: Oekom Verlag, 2006). A beautiful discussion of the “biography of things” can be found in the 1929 discussion of Sergej Tretjakow, “Die Biographie des Dings,” in Heiner Boehnke, ed., Die Arbeit des Schriftstellers (Reinbeck: Ro-wolt, 1972), 81–86; more generally on commodities, see Jens Soentgen, “Geschichten über Stoffe,” Arbeitsblätter für die Sachbuchforschung (October 2005): 1–25; Jennifer Bair, “Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward,” Competition and Change 9 (June 2005): 153–80; Immanuel Wallerstein, Commodity Chains in the World-Economy, 1590–1790 (Binghamton, NY: Fernand Braudel Center, 2000). A good example for a successfully recast economic history is William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: Norton, 1991). Good discussions on the rich historiography on the Industrial Revolution can be found in Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England , chapter 2; William J. Ashworth, “The Ghost of Rostow: Science, Culture and the British Industrial Revolution,” Historical Science 46 (2008): 249–74. For an emphasis on the importance of the spatial aspects of capitalism see David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography (New York: Routledge, 2001).
第1章一种全球性商品的兴起
1 这些小镇种植的棉花很可能是帕美里陆地棉（G. hirsutum Palmeri ）,这种棉花生长在今天的墨西哥瓦哈卡州和格雷罗州。植物的描述来自 C. Wayne Smith and J.