| Edition |
First Shoemaker and Hoard edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1986. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-368) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Plants and history.
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Crops -- History.
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| ISBN |
1593760493 |
| Standard No. |
9781593760496 |
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