9781316509845 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 4, 2016, cover price $32.99

9781593760441 | Counterpoint, November 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Four beautifully written essays explore the economic and ecological consequences of cash crops like timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape, moving through the last four centuries of world history to trace the profound impact of these cultivated plants.

9780333903551 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Following "Seeds of Change", with its investigation of the seminal role of plants in human social and economic history, Henry Hobhouse here focuses on the economic consequences of the exploitation of rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape - each of which enormously increased the wealth of those who dealt in them, created great new industries and changed the course of history.

9780230768505 | Pan Macmillan, July 5, 2012, cover price $25.35

9780554524801 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, August 30, 2008), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9780554524832 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, August 30, 2008), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781593760496 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, January 9, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An account of the historical influences of six commercial plants, including sugar, tea, cotton, potatoes, quinine, and coca, evaluates their role in the Atlantic slave trade, opening up of China, and establishment of multiple colonial empires.

9780333736289 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, January 1, 1999, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In Seeds of Change, Henry Hobhouse takes six commercial plants - sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinine and the coca plant - and shows how man's need, or greed, for these products has changed the face of history and shaped destinies.

9781593760892 | Counterpoint, January 9, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Seeds of Wealth is a collection of elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber, and the wine grape.

9781559700870 | Arcade Pub, May 1, 1990, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Argues that the modern world has been shaped far more by the forces of population growth, food supply, and disease than by any conscious action of humankind, demonstrating the interaction and interdependence of these three forces

9781593760755 | Counterpoint, December 15, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: There are few books that have the insight and power to change the way we think.

9780060914400 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1987), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A new interpretation of the past five hundred years of human history examines how the transfer of quinine, sugar, tea, cotton, and the potato from their native habitats to new settings have changed the world