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Alternative Agriculture: A History$
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Joan Thirsk

Print publication date: 2000

Print ISBN-13: 9780198208136

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208136.001.0001

Entering a New Era

Chapter:
(p. 22 ) (p. 23 ) 2 Entering a New Era
Source:
Alternative Agriculture: A History
Author(s):

Thirsk Joan

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208136.003.0003

This chapter discusses the second experience of alternative agriculture which returned after an interlude of some 100 to 150 years. The situation of farmers was dire in 1656. Prices were falling and many faced bankruptcy. Because of these events, Parliament approved the Act of 1656 which gave farmers the freedom to export grain, cattle, horses, meat, and dairy produce.

Keywords:   alternative agriculture, farmers, Act of 1656, export, agricultural products, scarcity

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