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For centuries before Europeans came to the New World, tobacco had an important role in the religious and social life of the early peoples of Kentucky. W.F. Axton describes the various forms in which tobacco has been used, its quick adoption by the Old World, and its gradual development into the form...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Axton, William F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tobacco industry.
Tobacco.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Tabac > Kentucky > Histoire.
Tabac > Industrie > Kentucky > Histoire.
Tobacco > Kentucky > History.
Tobacco industry > Kentucky > History.
Kentucky.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 ""Soul-Consoling Smoke"": The First 10,000 Years; 2 Tobacco: To Virginia and across the Appalachians, 1492-1792; 3 The Rising Burley Giant of the West, 1792-1860; 4 White Burle, the Queen of Plug, 1860-1890; 5 War in the Marketplace and Patch, 1890-1911; 6 Making the Modern Tobacco Industry, 1911-1939; 7 Kentucky and Tobacco Today, 1939-1974; Epilogue; Illustrations; Bibliographical Note.

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