'New crops and their diffusion. Tobacco growing in seventeenth century England' in C W Chalklin & M A Havinden (eds), Rural change and urban growth, 1500-1800. Essays in English regional history in honour of W G Hoskins

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Author(s) Thirsk, Joan
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1974
Pages pp76-103
Publisher Longmans
Place Published London

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Country England
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Discusses its introduction as a novel crop in the early 17th century and how it became firmly established among poor farmers until its cultivation was successfully prohibited by government by end of 17th century