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Tobacco Culture : The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution / T. H. Breen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breen, T. H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plantation owners--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Plantation owners.
- Plantation life--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Plantation life.
- Tobacco industry--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Tobacco industry.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes--Case studies.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes--Case studies.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- Second paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612449321
- 9780691047294
- 0691047294
- 9781282449329
- 128244932X
- 9781400820146
- 1400820146
- OCLC:
- 593216108
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