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Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich

Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich

Hobhouse, Henry

Paperback

Botany & HorticultureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1593760892
ISBN13: 9781593760892
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Dec 13 2005
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Seeds of Wealth is a collection of elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape. These cash crops have had, for the past three centuries, a profound effect on our world. In this intriguing account, Hobhouse illustrates how timber deficiency sparked an industrial revolution, tobacco lead to a wealthy and young nation, the rubber tree created nations, and wine provided the head, heart, and pocketbook with wealth.

This book offers proof of how the seemingly irrelevant can have widespread unintended consequences. In presenting global history from his own perspective, Henry Hobhouse offers an overview of how nature has unwittingly contributed to the creation of human wealth and economic growth.

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