Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
By Henry Hobhouse.
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
ISBN(s)
0333736281, 9780333736289
