Green Gold (Plant & Create Wealth Legend)

Author: (English) Hobsbawm, translated by Li Chun and Huang Qiong
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The lack of timber contributed to the Industrial Revolution in Britain, while the abundance of timber also fostered the early development of the United States; wine brought wealth to France while also adding a touch of elegance and intoxication to that wealth; rubber initially brought prosperity to Southeast Asia but ultimately became the golden goose of the automotive industries in Europe and America; tobacco, though widely known as a public nuisance, generated enormous profits for both tobacco merchants and governments in every country. This book introduces much knowledge about the relationship between Britain and America. Their commercial ties were as important, or even more important, as their political relations. Critics could argue to what extent they were centered around Britain, and they were right. Without Britain, America would be like Mexico; and without those thirteen colonies, Britain would have been poorer, and the source of wealth would have emerged elsewhere.