A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South

(Part of the Yale Agrarian Studies Series Series)

by Drew A. Swanson

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An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it

Drew 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300191162

ISBN13:9780300191165

Release Date:August 2014

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South

(Part of the Yale Agrarian Studies Series Series)

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