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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2005.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813149028 |