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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
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Reprint edition from Counterpoint (January 9, 2006)
9781593760496 | details & prices | 381 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $19.95
About: An account of the historical influences of six commercial plants, including sugar, tea, cotton, potatoes, quinine, and coca, evaluates their role in the Atlantic slave trade, opening up of China, and establishment of multiple colonial empires.
About: An account of the historical influences of six commercial plants, including sugar, tea, cotton, potatoes, quinine, and coca, evaluates their role in the Atlantic slave trade, opening up of China, and establishment of multiple colonial empires.
from Macmillan Pub Ltd (January 1, 1999)
9780333736289 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $29.99
About: In Seeds of Change, Henry Hobhouse takes six commercial 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.
About: In Seeds of Change, Henry Hobhouse takes six commercial 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.