Henry Hobhouse

Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich

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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 perspe… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-59376-089-2
EAN: 9781593760892
Produktnummer: 19442395
Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 313 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.4 cm 417 g
Gewicht: 417

Über den Autor

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.