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Egypt jumped on the opportunity. Their govt invested in large-scale cotton production immediately and went so all-in on cotton, they stopped growing much of anything else. The modern Egyptian cotton industry? Made possible by the US Civil War. www.jstor.org/stable/21422...
Apr 30, 2025, 6:02 PM
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