贝克特用棉花产业500年的历史告诉我们,奴隶制在资本主义的发展中起了关键作用,政府也是,它提供了枪炮,修建了道路,制定了关税和市场规则,只有这样资本主义才繁荣起来。十年前,对资本主义崛起感兴趣的历史学家很难在历史系找到立足之地,最接近研究资本主义的工作是从事劳工史的写作,没有历史学家想过要弥补空白写写那些商界精英。对资本主义感兴趣的人成了经济学家、银行家。或者成了为安德鲁·卡内基或者罗斯柴尔德做传的传记 Beckett told us in the history of 500 years of cotton industry that slavery played a key role in the development of capitalism. The government also provided guns, built roads and formulated tariffs and market rules. Only in this way can capitalism Prosperity. Ten years ago, historians interested in the rise of capitalism found it hard to find a place in the history department. The closest work on capitalism was in the writing of labor history. No historian ever wanted to make up for the blank. Business elite. Those interested in capitalism became economists and bankers. Or as a biography of Andrew Carnegie or Rothschild