An edition of Seeds of Change (1985)
Seeds of change
six plants that transformed mankind
By Henry Hobhouse
Publish Date
2006
Publisher
Shoemaker & Hoard
Language
eng
Pages
267
Description:
" ... 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."
subjects: Social aspects of Useful plants, Crops, Plants and history, Social aspects, Useful Plants, Economic aspects of Useful plants, History, Economic aspects, Plants, Political aspects, Quinine, Plantkunde, Kinine, Suiker, Thee, Katoen, Aardappels, Cocaïne, Plants, useful, Botany, history, Cotton, Potatoes, Therapeutic use, Tea, Solanum tuberosum, Edible Plants, Food Supply, Agricultural Crops