After Empire of Cotton
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Empire of Cotton showed you capitalism's blood-soaked foundations—slavery, extraction, coerced labor across continents. You craved that unflinching truth, that archival rigor connecting American plantations to British factories. You're ready for the next layer: how those same forces of imperial plunder didn't just build economies but poisoned the planet itself, tracing commodity violence into ecological collapse.