"Following the widely celebrated Seeds of Change (1985) comes Seeds of Wealth, a collection of four elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape. These cash crops have bound together trade relations for the...

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1. Verfasser:	Hobhouse, Henry (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Pan Books 2004
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Plants, Useful / History Plants, Useful / Economic aspects Plants, Useful / Social aspects Timber / History Wine and wine making / History Rubber goods / History Cigarettes / History Gesellschaft Kautschuk Holz Weinbau Wirtschaft Tabak
Zusammenfassung:	"Following the widely celebrated Seeds of Change (1985) comes Seeds of Wealth, a collection of four elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape. These cash crops have bound together trade relations for the past three centuries and have had a profound-if little noted - effect on our world." "Seeds of Wealth 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2003 Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index Introduction -- Timber: The essential carpet -- Wine: The grape's bid for immortality -- Rubber: Wheels shod for speed -- Tobacco: More than a smoke -- Index
Beschreibung:	xiii, 255 S. Ill. 22 cm
ISBN:	9780230768505