Seeds of change : six plants that transformed mankind / Henry Hobhouse.
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TextoIdioma: Inglés Fecha de copyright: Washington, D.C. : Berkeley, California : Shoemaker & Hoard ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2005Edición: First Shoemaker & Hoard editionDescripción: xviii, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmISBN: - 1593760493
- 9781593760496
- 633 23
- SB71 .H63 2005
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Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1986.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-368) and index.
Quinine. Quinine and the white man's burden --
Sugar. Sugar and the slave trade -- Tea. Tea and the demonstration of China -- Cotton. Cotton and the American South -- The potato. The potato, Ireland, and the United States -- Coca. How an Andean boon became a scourge on the streets.
In this broadly recognized classic of historical commentary, Henry Hobhouse traces the wondrous cultural impact of six common plants on humanity worldwide. Hobhouse argues that man's developing need for these little seeds determined the direction of human history. And as a result of man's need and greed, these plants - in their cultivation and dissemination - possess powers more profound than most wars and revolutions. A fascinating anecdotal approach to history, and "a triumph of a nimble and disciplined mind
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