Robin's Country
Title | Robin's Country PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Furlong |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-12 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780679890997 |
A mute orphan boy, with only shadowy recollections of his past, runs away from his cruel master and eventually joins Robin Hood and his followers in their forest hideaway.
Robin's Country
Title | Robin's Country PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Furlong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780590981231 |
A mute orphan boy, with only shadowy recollections of his past, runs away from his cruel master and eventually joins Robin Hood and his followers in their forest hideaway.
Country Life in America
Title | Country Life in America PDF eBook |
Author | Liberty Hyde Bailey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1044 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Country life |
ISBN |
Country Life
Title | Country Life PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1042 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Country life |
ISBN |
Oil Palm
Title | Oil Palm PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan E. Robins |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2021-05-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1469662906 |
Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution. Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africa's oil palm landscapes and the people who worked them. In the twentieth century, the World Bank promulgated oil palm agriculture as a panacea to rural development in Southeast Asia and across the tropics. As plantation companies tore into rainforests, evicting farmers in the name of progress, the oil palm continued its rise to dominance, sparking new controversies over trade, land and labor rights, human health, and the environment. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day.
Country Life Illustrated
Title | Country Life Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 848 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Country life |
ISBN |
Country Life
Title | Country Life PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art |
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