Peasants and tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1870-1930
By: Michiel Baud.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Tobacco industry -- Dominican Republic -- Cibao Valley -- History; Tobacco farmers -- Dominican Republic -- Cibao Valley -- History; Peasantry -- Dominican Republic -- Cibao Valley -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: About this book: social and historiographical context; title: Tobacco and the Cibao, 1870-1930: the regional economy; title: Peasants and historians: a theoretical survey; title: The tobacco-producing peasantry: the logic of small-scale agriculture; title: Peasants and the market: organization of the rural tobacco trade; title: The transformation of rural society: peasants and landowners in the Villa González region; title: Tobacco as an export crop: urban merchants and the peasant economy; title: Ideologies of progress: state intervention and rural society; title: The struggle for technology: improving the quality of Dominican tobacco; title: The Cibao peasantry in comparative perspective.