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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...

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Autor principal: Campbell, Tracy, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Legacy of Peonage; 2. Monopoly Comes to the Tobacco Belt; 3. Organizing the Black Patch; 4. Rumors of War; 5. Night Riders; 6. Organizing the Bluegrass; 7. Farmers on Strike; 8. The Demise of Agrarian Cooperation; 9. The Decline of the Countryside; Appendix; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W. 
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