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Making Tobacco Bright : Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421404813
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Tobacco BrightDDC classification:
  • 338.1/737109730903
LOC classification:
  • HD9135 .H34 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- PART I: TOBACCO BEFORE TYPES -- 1 Making Tobacco Virginian -- 2 Growing the Business -- 3 Death and Taxes -- PART II: CONSTRUCTING VARIETALS -- 4 Ripeness Is All -- 5 Inventing Tradition -- 6 Stabilization -- Appendix. The Real Thing: Tobacco Genetics -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of identity politics in the twentieth century.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- PART I: TOBACCO BEFORE TYPES -- 1 Making Tobacco Virginian -- 2 Growing the Business -- 3 Death and Taxes -- PART II: CONSTRUCTING VARIETALS -- 4 Ripeness Is All -- 5 Inventing Tradition -- 6 Stabilization -- Appendix. The Real Thing: Tobacco Genetics -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of identity politics in the twentieth century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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