Seeds of change
Subtitle: five plants that transformed mankind
By: Henry Hobhouse
Edition: 1st Perennial Library ed
Publisher: Perennial Library
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Plants and history; Crops -- History
Notes: Includes index

Bibliography: p. 233-237
Table of contents: title: Quinine: quinine and the white man's burden; title: Sugar: sugar and the slave trade; title: Tea: tea and the destruction of China; title: Cotton: cotton and the American South; title: Potato: the potato, Ireland, and the United States