Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0333736281
ISBN 13
9780333736289
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
381
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
