First Published in 2005. The present volume is concerned with the beginnings of the English Tobacco trade, and therefore does not extend beyond the first few years of the eighteenth century or the manufacturing process
THE EARLY ENGLISH TOBACCO TRADE: C. M. MACINNES:
CONTENTS
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List of Authorities ix
Prefatory NOTE xi
Chapter I: The Discovery and Spread of Tobacco…1
Name — Habitat — Early descriptions — Use among Indians — Medicinal qualities
Europe—Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy, Germany, N. Europe
Asia-India Persia and Arabia, Turkey, China and Japan
Africa—Opposition to — Europe, Asia
Chapter II: Introduction into England… 27
Brought by English sailors—Spread in England—The attack and defence of tobacco
Chapter III: The Hometrade in Tobacco… 51
Policy of James I. and Charles I.—London as a tobacco staple—Rise of the outports—Regulation of internal trade under James I. and Charles I.—Later proposals for regulation
Chapter IV: Tobacco-growing in England… 75
The beginnings of English planting—The policy of James I. and Charles 1.—Spread of the industry—Cromwell and the English planters
Chapter V: Suppression of English Planting… 105
The Restoration Government and the English planters—Spread of the industry in the face of opposition—Decline and extinction of the industry—Contemporary opinion on the subject
Chapter VI: THE Colonial Trade… 130
Beginning of tobacco-planting in Virginia—Tobacco as a royal monopoly—The Navigation Acts in relation to the tobacco trade—Breaches of the Navigation Acts—Growth of the Colonial Trade during the period
Chapter VII: The Foreign Trade in Tobacco… 153
Rise and suppression of the Spanish import trade—Trade with Holland—Importance of tobacco in English foreign trade in latter part of century—The Russian trade—Conclusion
Conclusion… 182
Appendix… 184
Index… 189
Biography
Macinnes, C.M
