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Author Breen, T. H., author.

Title Tobacco culture : the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve of revolution / T.H. Breen ; with a new preface by the author
Edition Second paperback edition
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 216 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; 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-l
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Plantation owners -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century
Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century
Tobacco industry -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
War -- Causes
Commerce
Plantation life
Plantation owners
Tobacco industry
SUBJECT Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143765
Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Case studies
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Case studies
Virginia -- Commerce -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- Commerce -- Virginia
Subject Great Britain
United States
Virginia
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400820146
1400820146
0691089140
9780691089140
0691047294
9780691047294
9786612449321
6612449322