LEADER 03042nam 22005295 450 001 9910791145703321 005 20230803221823.0 010 $a0-300-20681-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300206814 035 $a(CKB)2550000001339714 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000894758 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421456 035 $a(DE-B1597)486030 035 $a(OCoLC)885336483 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300206814 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001339714 100 $a20200424h20142014 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Golden Weed $eTobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South /$fDrew A. Swanson 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 225 0 $aYale Agrarian Studies Series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-19116-2 311 $a1-322-01691-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tOne. On The Back Of Tobacco -- $tTwo. Let There Be Bright -- $tThree. Bright Leaf, Bright Prospects -- $tFour. Tobacco Goes to War -- $tFive. Fire in the Fields -- $tSix. A Barren and Fruitful Land -- $tSeven. The Decline of the Border -- $tEpilogue: A New Deal for Old Land? -- $tAppendix: Antebellum Tobacco Prices -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aDrew A. Swanson has written an "environmental" history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco.  A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters.   Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virginia tobacco farm, explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. He weaves together social, agricultural, and cultural history of the Piedmont region and illustrates how ideas about race and landscape management became entangled under slavery and afterward. Challenging long-held perceptions, this innovative study examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land, and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 606 $aTobacco$zPiedmont (U.S. : Region)$xHistory 606 $aTobacco$zSouthern States$xHistory 615 0$aTobacco$xHistory. 615 0$aTobacco$xHistory. 676 $a633.7/10975 700 $aSwanson$b Drew A., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01530048 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791145703321 996 $aA Golden Weed$93774780 997 $aUNINA