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Seeds of Change : five plants that transformed mankind / Henry Hobhouse.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SB71 .H63 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobhouse, Henry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants and history.
- Crops--History.
- Crops.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [2], xv, [1], 252, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1986]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0060156317 :
- OCLC:
- 13642584
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