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Seeds of change : six plants that transformed mankind / Henry Hobhouse.
- Title
- Seeds of change : six plants that transformed mankind / Henry Hobhouse.
- Author
- Hobhouse, Henry.
- Publication
- London : Papermac, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | SB71 .H623x 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 381 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- " ... Henry Hobhouse takes six commercials plants - sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinine and the coca plant - and shows how man's need, or greed, for these products has changed the face of history and shaped destinies."
- Alternative Title
- Six plants that transformed mankind
- Subject
- Note
- "New edition including new chapter..."--T.p. verso.
- Previous ed.: 1992.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-368) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Quinine: quinine and the white man's burden -- Sugar: sugar and the slave trade -- Tea: tea and the destruction of China -- Cotton: cotton and the American South -- Potato: the potato, Ireland, and the United States -- Coca: how an Andean boon became a scourge on the streets.
- ISBN
- 0333736281
- OCLC
- 40753070
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library