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Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich - Couverture souple

Hobhouse, Henry

 
9781593760892: Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1593760892 ISBN 13 : 9781593760892
Editeur : Catapult, 2005

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Henry Hobhouse was born in Somerset, England in 1924 and was educated at Eton. He worked as a journalist for The Economist, Daily Express, and The Wall Street Journal and was one of the first directors of CBS-TV News. In 1954, he returned to his farm in Somerset. He died in 2016.

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Éditeur
Catapult
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1593760892
ISBN 13 
9781593760892
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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