Seven Seminal Plants - Tea, Tobacco, Sugar, Opium, Cotton, Quinine and Rubber - Have Sustained Empires, Oiled The Wheels Of Trade And Changed The Fortunes Of Countries Where They Were Grown; Provenance: From the library of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy 1941-2021 an American Ecologist, Yale University Graduate and President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center in Brazil. He also held appointments at the United Nations, George Mason University, and the World Bank and received recognition worldwide for his work including posthumously from the National Geographic Society with its highest honor the Hubbard Medal... View More...
This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand something of the relationship between Islam and Christendom in those centuries. View More...
