Project Gutenberg 2008-01-31 Public domain in the USA. 361 Billings, E. R. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Reading ease score: 61.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Ted Garvin, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Tobacco: Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce" by E.R. Billings is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book provides an extensive examination of the tobacco plant, covering its discovery, cultivation, and significance in trade and society. Billings frames the plant not just as an agricultural product, but as a fascinating subject with entwined cultural, economic, and medicinal narratives spanning centuries. The opening of this work provides a detailed botanical description of the tobacco plant, elucidating its growth conditions and various species. Billings explains the plant's importance, emphasizing its adaptability across climates and its key role in agricultural practices, particularly in Virginia. He touches upon its early history, mentioning how the plant was first introduced to Europe by explorers and highlighting its rapid rise in popularity and cultivation, which shaped economies and social customs in both the New and Old Worlds. Furthermore, the chapter establishes the groundwork for a more in-depth analysis of tobacco's multifaceted role in human history, promising a comprehensive resource for both enthusiasts and scholars alike. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Tobacco use Tobacco -- History Tobacco industry -- History DS HV SB Text Horticulture Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - General Browsing: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming 1175211 1170449 2024-10-10T12:49:48.362153 2023-09-11T05:03:43.149594 text/html text/html 1168611 2021-01-03T07:41:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 7898240 2021-01-03T07:41:27 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 8141785 2024-10-10T12:50:13.364047 application/epub+zip 8161202 2024-10-10T12:49:56.725120 application/epub+zip 499763 2024-10-10T12:49:53.138136 application/epub+zip 8602145 2024-10-10T12:50:22.510978 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 8559795 2024-10-10T12:50:09.122069 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 909500 2022-09-11T10:12:05.091991 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1030829 1030724 2024-10-10T12:49:44.905194 2023-09-11T05:03:40.303593 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1030616 2021-01-03T07:41:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 377966 2021-01-03T07:41:27 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1030694 2021-01-03T07:41:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 377852 2021-01-03T07:41:27 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22290 2024-10-10T12:50:22.665985 application/rdf+xml 24338 2024-10-10T12:49:53.827126 image/jpeg 4561 2024-10-10T12:49:53.499158 image/jpeg 8028284 2024-10-10T12:49:48.860171 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog