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Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937

Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937

Hahn, Barbara

Paperback

Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Technology & EngineeringAgricultureRegional: South

ISBN10: 142142522X
ISBN13: 9781421425221
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Dec 15 2017
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant's many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation.

Hahn focuses her study on the most popular of these varieties, Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco. First grown in the inland Piedmont along the Virginia-North Carolina border, Bright Tobacco now grows all over the world, primarily because of its unique--and easily replicated--cultivation and curing methods. Hahn traces the evolution of technologies in a variety of regulatory and cultural environments to reconstruct how Bright Tobacco became, and remains to this day, a leading commodity in the global tobacco industry.

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