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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
de Yafa, Stephen
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good. No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0143037226
- ISBN 13
- 9780143037224
- Librería
-
Luxemburg, Wisconsin, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Penguin Books, 2006. Illustrated. Annotated. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 398 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Sinopsis
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt , this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin Klein's empire and the Gap, Stephen Yafa's Cotton gives us an intimate look at the plant that fooled Columbus into thinking he'd reached India, that helped start the Industrial Revolution as well as the American Civil War, and that made at least one bug—the boll weevil—world famous. A sweeping chronicle of ingenuity, greed, conflict, and opportunism, Cotton offers "a barrage of fascinating information" ( Los Angeles Times ).
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- Librería
- Red Rover Do Over
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- Alibris.0021830
- Título
- Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
- Autor
- Yafa, Stephen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good. No dust jacket as issued
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Illustrated. Annotated
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0143037226
- ISBN 13
- 9780143037224
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
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