Seeds of wealth : four plants that made men rich
(Book)

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.

"Following the widely celebrated Seeds of Change (1985) comes Seeds of Wealth, a collection of four elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape. These cash crops have bound together trade relations for the past three centuries and have had a profound-if little noted - effect on our world." "Seeds of Wealth offers proof of how the seemingly irrelevant can have widespread unintended consequences. In presenting global history from his own perspective, Henry Hobhouse offers an overview of how nature has unwittingly contributed to the creation of human wealth and economic growth."--Jacket.