Making tobacco bright
Subtitle: creating an American commodity, 1617-1937
By: Barbara Hahn
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology; Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781421402864
Subjects: Tobacco industry; History; Tobacco; Commerce
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Making tobacco Virginian; title: Growing the business; title: Death and taxes; title: Ripeness is all; title: Inventing tradition; title: Stabilization; title: Appendix 1: Essay on sources; title: Appendix 2: The real thing : tobacco genetics.