caa a22 4500 386330751 CHVBK 20180307111713.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700008020 doi S0022050700008020 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700008020 Land, Labor, and Economies of Scale in Early Maryland: Some Limits to Growth in the Chesapeake System of Husbandry [Elektronische Daten] Seventeenth-century planters developed a new system of husbandry, a long fallow, hoe-based agriculture that raised tobacco for export and Indian corn for subsistence. Plentiful land and shortages of labor characterized the system, which had few economies of scale. It provided rapid increases in wealth during the farm building stages, but its land and labor constraints set limits on growth. Eighteenth-century adaptations created economies of scale that permitted planters to grow grains for export without reducing tobacco crops. Planters who did not adopt these changes did not share in the resulting prosperity, and many left. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1989 Carr Lois Green Historian, St. Mary's City Commission, care of the Maryland State Archives, 350 Rowe Blvd., Annapolis, MD 21401. Menard Russell R. Historian, St. Mary's City Commission, care of the Maryland State Archives, 350 Rowe Blvd., Annapolis, MD 21401. The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/2(1989-06), 407-418 0022-0507 49:2<407 1989 49 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700008020 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700008020 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carr Lois Green Historian, St. Mary's City Commission, care of the Maryland State Archives, 350 Rowe Blvd., Annapolis, MD 21401 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Menard Russell R. Historian, St. Mary's City Commission, care of the Maryland State Archives, 350 Rowe Blvd., Annapolis, MD 21401 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/2(1989-06), 407-418 0022-0507 49:2<407 1989 49 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge