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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794016503321

Autore

Allosso Dan

Titolo

Peppermint kings : a rural American history / / Dan Allosso [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2021

ISBN

0-300-25262-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 pages)

Collana

Yale agrarian studies series

Yale scholarship online

Disciplina

338.47661806095

Soggetti

Peppermint industry - United States - History - 19th century

Agriculture - United States - History - 19th century

Farm life - United States - History - 19th century

History

United States Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Introduction -- TWO Peppermint in America -- THREE Essence and Peddlers -- FOUR Migration -- FIVE Prize Medal Oil of Peppermint -- SIX Peppermint Bank -- SEVEN The Dark Side of Family Business -- EIGHT Crystal White -- NINE Socialist Capitalist -- TEN Global Peppermint -- ELEVEN Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

An unexplored, fascinating history of nineteenth-century agrarian life, told through the engaging lens of three families central to the peppermint oil industry. This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural people of their time. Challenging the standard paradigms, historian Dan Allosso focuses on the rural characters who lived by their own rules and did not acquiesce to contemporary religious doctrines, business mores, and political expediencies.