Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse

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  • Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
  • Henry Hobhouse
  • Page: 400
  • Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  • ISBN: 9781593760496
  • Publisher: Counterpoint

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Overview

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.