Tobacco Culture : : The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution / / T. H. Breen.
The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George Wa...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©1985 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND PAPERBACK EDITION
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- I. An Agrarian Context for Radical Ideas
- II. Tobacco Mentality
- III. Planters and Merchants: A Kind of Friendship
- IV. Loss of Independence
- V. Politicizing the Discourse: Tobacco, Debt and the Coming of Revolution
- EPILOGUE: A New Beginning
- INDEX