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In this book, the author takes five commercial plants - sugar, tea, cotton, potatoes and quinine - and shows how man's need, or greed, for these products has changed the face of history and shaped destinies.
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Five plants--quinine, sugar cane, tea, cotton, and potato--have been powerful political historical catalysts, argues this speculative journalist. "Wise and witty . . . deserves to become a classic."--Publishers Weekly
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Henry Hobhouse worked as a journalist for The Economist, News Chronicle, Daily Express, and Wall Street Journal, becoming, in 1948, the first Director of CBS-TV News.
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- PublisherMcclelland & Stewart Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0333582632
- ISBN 13 9780333582633
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- Number of pages272
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