What's said about Britain's cotton-based economy in relation to the rest of the world? That is, what other places around the globe were connected to this narrative? What's meant by the changing geography of production? How was the international division of labor affected by these changes? (*Think about how India was perceived in terms of their cotton manufactures before the rise of capitalist Britain and then after.)

use The first part of the six-part series, "Capitalism part 1: Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market."

• Chapter 3, "The Wages of War Capitalism" from Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton.

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