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The politics of despair : power and resistance in the Tobacco Wars /
Shortly after 1900, tens of thousands of tobacco growers throughout Kentucky and Tennessee convulsed the region for nearly a decade in a revolt against the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company. Though the revolt known as the Tobacco Wars remains one of the more remarkable insurgenc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Shortly after 1900, tens of thousands of tobacco growers throughout Kentucky and Tennessee convulsed the region for nearly a decade in a revolt against the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company. Though the revolt known as the Tobacco Wars remains one of the more remarkable insurgencies of rural America, it is also one of the more misunderstood. In this first major account of the uprising in over half a century, Tracy Campbell tells the story of these embattled farmers and casts a provocative new light on the issues that fueled the Tobacco Wars. When tobacco prices fell below th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813149028 0813149029 0813131901 9780813131900 9780813191300 0813191300 |