Seeds of Change
Subtitle:  Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Papermac
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780333736289
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Economic history; Industry & Industrial Studies; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Nature/Ecology
Description: " ... Henry Hobhouse takes six commercials 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."