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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobhouse, Henry.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants and history.

Crops--History.

Crops.

Quinine--History.

Quinine.

Crops, Agricultural--history.

Quinine--history.

Medical Subjects:

Crops, Agricultural--history.

Quinine--history.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], xv, [1], 252 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Perennial Library edition.

Distribution:

New York : Harper & Row Publishers,

Place of Publication:

New York : Perennial Library, 1987.

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

Potato: the potato, Ireland, and the United States.

Notes:

Copy Editor: Ann Finlayson. Designer: Charlotte Staub. Maps and drawings by Milne Stebbing Illustration. Index by Auralie Logan.

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Hobhouse, Henry. Seeds of change.

ISBN:

0060914408

9780060914400

OCLC:

18229443