Research Catalog

Title

Seeds of wealth : four plants that made men rich / Henry Hobhouse.

Author

Hobhouse, Henry.

Publication

Washington, DC : Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004.

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Details

Description

xiii, 255 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Following the widely celebrated Seeds of Change (1985) comes Seeds of Wealth, a collection of four elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape. These cash crops have bound together trade relations for the past three centuries and have had a profound-if little noted - effect on our world." "Seeds of Wealth offers proof of how the seemingly irrelevant can have widespread unintended consequences. In presenting global history from his own perspective, Henry Hobhouse offers an overview of how nature has unwittingly contributed to the creation of human wealth and economic growth."--Jacket.

Subject

• Plants, Useful > History
• Plants, Useful > Economic aspects
• Plants, Useful > Social aspects
• Timber > History
• Wine and wine making > History
• Rubber goods > History
• Cigarettes > History
• Cigarettes
• Plants, Useful
• Rubber goods
• Timber
• Wine and wine making

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Orignally published: London : Macmillan, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. 245-248) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Timber: The essential carpet -- Wine: The grape's bid for immortality -- Rubber: Wheels shod for speed -- Tobacco: More than a smoke -- Index.

ISBN

• 1593760442
• 9781593760441

LCCN

2004065332

OCLC

• ocm56979874
• 56979874
• SCSB-1354744

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library