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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind

Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind

Name: Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Henry Hobhouse
ISBN: 9780333736289

Henry Hobhouse

05/02/1999
Papermac

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Couverture de Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind par Henry Hobhouse

Résumé

Traces the history of five commercial plants - sugar, tea, cotton, potatoes and quinine - and seeks to illustrate how man's need, or greed, for these products has shaped human development. This edition includes a chapter on the coca plant, demonstrating its social, political and economic effect.