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Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution

by T. H. Breen

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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.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface to the Second Paperback Edition xi

Preface xxv

Acknowledgments xxix

I. An Agrarin Context for Radical Ideas 3

II. Tobacco Mentality 40

II. Planters and Merchants: A Kind of Friendship 84

IV. Loss of Independence 124

V. Politicizing the Discourse: Tobacco, Debt and the Coming of Revolution 160

Epilogue: A New Beginning 204

Index 211

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780691089140
Author:
Breen, T. H.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Location:
Princeton, NJ
Subject:
Great britain
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Virginia
Subject:
United States - State & Local
Subject:
United States - Revolutionary War
Subject:
United States - Colonial Period
Subject:
Plantation life
Subject:
Tobacco industry
Subject:
Plantation owners
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Subject:
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Subject:
American history
Subject:
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-
Subject:
Virginia History.
Subject:
Americana-General
Copyright:
2001
Edition Number:
2nd pbk. ed.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
2001s-12
Publication Date:
July 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
8 x 5 in 11 oz
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