A golden weed tobacco and environment in the Piedmont South = Tobacco and environment in the Piedmont South
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| Sprache: | English |
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New Haven [Connecticut]
Yale University Press
[2014]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Yale agrarian studies
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- Drew A. Swanson presents 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 book provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters. This book explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry