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Author Swanson, Drew A., 1979- author.

Title A golden weed : tobacco and environment in the Piedmont South / Drew A. Swanson.

Publication Info. New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Yale agrarian series
Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Drew A. Swanson presents an 'environmental' history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the book provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters. This book explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry.
Contents Introduction : how did such a poor land make some people so rich, and how did they so quickly become poor again? -- On the back of tobacco : sowing the seeds of a tobacco culture -- Let there be bright : the birth of yellow tobacco culture -- Bright leaf, bright prospects : making peace with the idea of yellow tobacco -- Tobacco goes to war -- Fire in the fields : reconstructing labor and land following the Civil War -- A barren and fruitful land -- The decline of the border -- Epilogue : a new deal for old land? -- Appendix : antebellum tobacco prices.
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Subject Tobacco -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- History.
Tobacco.
History.
Tobacco -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Tobacco and environment in the Piedmont South
Other Form: Print version: Swanson, Drew A., 1979- Golden weed 9780300191165 (DLC) 2013050495 (OCoLC)862098408
ISBN 9780300206814 (electronic book)
030020681X (electronic book)
9780300191165 (print)
0300191162