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Tobacco Culture : The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution / T. H. Breen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©1985Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691089140
  • 9781400820146
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 975.5/02
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries lived in a world that was dominated by questions of debt from across an ocean but also one that stressed personal autonomy. T. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence. He examines the value-laden relationships--found in both the fields and marketplaces--that led from tobacco to politics, from agrarian experience to political protest, and finally to a break with the political and economic system that they believed threatened both personal independence and honor.
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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

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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 Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries lived in a world that was dominated by questions of debt from across an ocean but also one that stressed personal autonomy. T. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence. He examines the value-laden relationships--found in both the fields and marketplaces--that led from tobacco to politics, from agrarian experience to political protest, and finally to a break with the political and economic system that they believed threatened both personal independence and honor.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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