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Author Hobhouse, Henry.

Title Seeds of change : five plants that transformed mankind / Henry Hobhouse.

Publication Info. New York : Harper & Row, [1986]
©1986

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  581.6 HOB    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  581.6109 H683S    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 233-237.
Note Includes index.
Contents Quinine. Quinine and the white man's burden -- Sugar. Sugar and the slave trade -- Tea. Tea and the destruction of China -- Cotton. Cotton and the American South -- The potato. The potato, Ireland, and the United States.
Subject Plants and history.
Crops -- History.
Cotton -- history.
Solanum tuberosum -- history.
Quinine -- history.
Quinine -- therapeutic use.
Tea -- history.
Other Form: Online version: Hobhouse, Henry. Seeds of change. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1986 (OCoLC)622747636
ISBN 0060156317: $19.95
9780060156312
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