A golden weed : tobacco and environment in the Piedmont South /

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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 argu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swanson, Drew A., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Tobacco > Piedmont (U.S. : Region) > History.
Tobacco > Southern States > History.
Tabac > Piedmont (États-Unis : Région) > Histoire.
Tabac > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Tobacco
Southern States
United States > Piedmont Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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