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But the value of deer skins dropped as domesticated cattle took over the market, and many tribes soon found themselves in debt. [98] [109] The Creek began to sell their land to the government to try and pay their debts, and infighting among the Indians made it easy for white settlers to encroach upon their lands. [98]
The most important development between the 16th century and the mid-19th century was private marketing. By the 19th century, marketing was nationwide, and the vast majority of agricultural production was for market rather than for the farmer and his family. The 16th-century market radius was about 10 miles, which could support a town of 10,000 ...
Coal mining also continued to expand, rising from around 225,000 tons a year in the late seventeenth century to at least 700,000 tons by 1750. [15] The major change in international trade was the rapid expansion of the Americas as a market. [27] Glasgow supplied the colonies with cloth, iron farming implements and tools, glass and leather goods.
A few hundred head of cattle were reported in the town in 1600. The failure to establish herds of cattle meant that 2,000 ducats worth of dried beef had to be imported from Havana yearly. [2] [7] [8] Documentation about ranches in Spanish Florida is scarce, particularly in the first half of the 17th century.
The market originally covered 30 acres (0.12 km 2) of the site and grounds of Copenhagen House, so named as the location of the Ambassador of Denmark's residence in the 17th century. Prior to being redeveloped these grounds housed a pleasure resort and tea garden .
The term "maritime fur trade" has been used by historians from the 1880s onwards [16] to distinguish the coastal ship-based fur trade from the continental land-based fur trade of, for example, the North West Company (1779–1821) of Montreal and the American Fur Company (1808–1847). [17]
The term Scottish Agricultural Revolution was used in the early 20th century primarily to refer to the period of most dramatic change in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century. More recently historians have become aware of a longer processes, with change beginning in the late 17th century and continuing into the mid-19th ...
Bradburn, Douglas M., and John C. Coombs. "SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Reinterpreting the society and economy of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake". Atlantic Studies 3.2 (2006): 131-157; argues the need to study regional tobacco cultures, trade with Caribbean, trade with the Indians, internal markets, shipbuilding, and western land development.