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A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
Drew A. Swanson
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Description for A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
Hardback. An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; 3JJ; KCT; KNAC; KNDF1; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it
Drew A. Swanson has written 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 author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters.
Swanson, who brings to his narrative the ... Read more
An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it
Drew A. Swanson has written 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 author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters.
Swanson, who brings to his narrative the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300191165
SKU
V9780300191165
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About Drew A. Swanson
Drew A. Swanson is assistant professor of history at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio, where he teaches environmental history.
Reviews for A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
“How did such a valuable crop thrive on land so poor? Why did the earth melt from under the fortunes of planters? Drew Swanson gives answers in a history of bright leaf that is also about the fate of a southern region, a plant and its environment, and the rise of the cigarette.”—Steven Stoll, author of Larding the Lean Earth: Soil ... Read more