Description |
1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Yale agrarian series
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Yale agrarian studies.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Tobacco -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- History.
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Tobacco. |
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History. |
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Tobacco -- Southern States -- History.
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Southern States. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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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) |
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030020681X (electronic book) |
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9780300191165 (print) |
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0300191162 |
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