Making Tobacco Bright
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Making Tobacco Bright
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Author : Barbara M. Hahn
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Making Tobacco Bright written by Barbara M. Hahn and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with History categories.
In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant's many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation. Hahn focuses her study on the most popular of these varieties, Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco. First grown in the inland Piedmont along the Virginia--North Carolina border, Bright Tobacco now grows all over the world, primarily because of its unique -- and easily replicated -- cultivation and curing methods. Hahn traces the evolution of technologies in a variety of regulatory and cultural environments to reconstruct how Bright Tobacco became, and remains to this day, a leading commodity in the global tobacco industry. This study asks not what effect tobacco had on the world market, but how that market shaped tobacco into types that served specific purposes and became distinguishable from one another more by technologies of production than genetics. In so doing, it explores the intersection of crossbreeding, tobacco-raising technology, changing popular demand, attempts at regulation, and sheer marketing ingenuity during the heyday of the American tobacco industry. Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of identity politics in the twentieth century.
The Bright Tobacco Industry 1860 1929
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Author : Nannie May Tilley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Bright Tobacco Industry 1860 1929 written by Nannie May Tilley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Tobacco categories.
This study is concerned with the cultivation, marketing, and manufacture of Bright Tobacco--technically called flue-cured tobacco--in the Virginia-Carolina area and its subsequent expansion into Georgia. The author discusses many aspects of the industry and in conclusion surveys the effects of the introduction of greater capital into the Virginia-Carolina area. Originally published in 1948. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Crop Rotation And Fertilizer Experiments With Bright Tobacco
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Author : Randolph Preston Cocke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Crop Rotation And Fertilizer Experiments With Bright Tobacco written by Randolph Preston Cocke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with History categories.
The Story Of Tobacco In America
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Author : Joseph C. Robert
language : en
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 1967
The Story Of Tobacco In America written by Joseph C. Robert and has been published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with History categories.
This history of tobacco in America begins with the country's earliest times. The author gives the broadest possible interpretation to his assignment, tracing not only the industry itself in its various aspects--plantation, leaf market, factory, and fluctuating nicotine manners--but also the effect of tobacco on political, economic, and social life in America through the years. Originally published in 1967. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
When Tobacco Was King
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Author : Evan P. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2014-10-21
When Tobacco Was King written by Evan P. Bennett and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with History categories.
Tobacco has left an indelible mark on the American South, shaping the land and culture throughout the twentieth-century. In the last few decades, advances in technology and shifts in labor and farming policy have altered the way of life for tobacco farmers: family farms have largely been replaced by large-scale operations dependent on hired labor, much of it from other shores. However, the mechanical harvester and the H-2A guestworker did not put an end to tobacco culture but rather sent it in new directions and accelerated the change that has always been part of the farmer’s life. In When Tobacco Was King, Evan Bennett examines the agriculture of the South’s original staple crop in the Old Bright Belt—a diverse region named after the unique bright, or flue-cured, tobacco variety it spawned. He traces the region’s history from Emancipation to the abandonment of federal crop controls in 2004 and highlights the transformations endured by blacks and whites, landowners and tenants, to show how tobacco farmers continued to find meaning and community in their work despite these drastic changes.
Plantation Kingdom
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Author : Richard Follett
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Plantation Kingdom written by Richard Follett and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with History categories.
How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees. In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had ever known. But fifty years later—after emancipation demolished the plantation-labor system, Asian competition flooded world markets with cheap raw materials, and free trade eliminated protected markets—America’s plantations lay in ruins. Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America’s plantation economy. Written by four renowned historians, the book demonstrates how an international capitalist system rose out of slave labor, indentured servitude, and the mass production of agricultural commodities for world markets. Vast estates continued to exist after emancipation, but tenancy and sharecropping replaced slavery’s work gangs across most of the plantation world. Poverty and forced labor haunted the region well into the twentieth century. The book explores the importance of slavery to the Old South, the astounding profitability of plantation agriculture, and the legacy of emancipation. It also examines the place of American producers in world markets and considers the impact of globalization and international competition 150 years ago. Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.
Colonising Plants In Bihar 1760 1950
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Author : Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26
Colonising Plants In Bihar 1760 1950 written by Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Social Science categories.
This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the his-tory of the colonial developmental state, and the agrarian history of South Asia. First, it demonstrates the dynamism of cash-crop production systems and how these systems influenced each other. Second, it explores how colonial state policy came to stimulate research-based agronomic interventions, often with unintended consequences. And finally, it shows how cash cropping entangled South Asians and Europeans in new forms of struggle and cooperation. This meticulous and illuminating study deserves a wide readership. Willem van Schendel, professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam.
Technology In The Industrial Revolution
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Author : Barbara Hahn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-23
Technology In The Industrial Revolution written by Barbara Hahn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.
Tobacco
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Author : Iain Gately
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Tobacco written by Iain Gately and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with History categories.
“A rich, complex history . . . Deeply engaging and witty” (Los Angeles Times). Long before Columbus arrived in the New Word, tobacco was cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely—a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success, and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever. Iain Gately’s Tobacco tells the epic story of an unusual plant and its unique relationship with the history of humanity, from its obscure ancient beginnings, through its rise to global prominence, to its current embattled state today. In a lively narrative, Gately makes the case for the tobacco trade being the driving force behind the growth of the American colonies, the foundation of Dutch trading empire, the underpinning cause of the African slave trade, and the financial basis for victory in the American Revolution. Well-researched and wide-ranging, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look at the surprising roles this plant has played in the culture of the world. “Ambitious . . . informative and perceptive . . . Gately is an amusing writer, which is a blessing.” —The Washington Post “Documents the resourcefulness with which human beings of every class, religion, race, and continent have pursued the lethal leaf.” —The New York Times Book Review
Plantation Kingdom
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Author : Richard Follett
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-04
Plantation Kingdom written by Richard Follett and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.