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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Chemistry has had a profound influence on the course of history.
Chapter 3: New York might still be named New Amsterdam, but for a seventeenth-century war fought over nutmeg alone.
Chapter 4: Ocean exploration killed many sailors until they discovered that vitamin C could prevent scurvy entirely.
Chapter 5: Rubber, as we know it today, wouldn’t exist without human ingenuity.
Chapter 6: The pursuit of color birthed what became the chemical industry.
Chapter 7: Two women reshaped society by advocating the creation of the first effective oral contraceptive ever.
Chapter 8: Witches employed plants to heal various ailments, eventually causing their systematic persecution by authorities.
Chapter 9: Quinine was the earliest molecule employed to fight malaria.
Description
Napoleon’s Buttons (2004) is all about the molecules that have guided the course of human history in the unlikeliest of ways. These blinks explore how major geopolitical and social changes can be traced back to the simple bonding of atoms in a molecule.
Who Should Listen
- People interested in the history of chemistry
- Students of history who want a different perspective on world events
- Anyone who’s intrigued by the ways everyday objects have changed world history