Author: J. D. CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tobacco
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests in North Carolina ...
Author: J. D. CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tobacco
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Sketch of the Tobacco Interests in North Carolina
Author: John Donald CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Tobacco Manufacturing Industry in North Carolina
Author: Benjamin Franklin LemertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A Sketch Of The Tobacco Interests In North Carolina
Author: J. D. CameronPublisher:
ISBN: 9781018186887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Golden Weed
Author: Drew A. SwansonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030020681X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters. Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virginia tobacco farm, explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. He weaves together social, agricultural, and cultural history of the Piedmont region and illustrates how ideas about race and landscape management became entangled under slavery and afterward. Challenging long-held perceptions, this innovative study examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land, and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region.
We Gather Together
Author: Charles C. EldredgePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520380312
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest. The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists’ studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in between—when many Americans were farmers and much of America was farmland. Organized in a series of case studies each devoted to a single crop, We Gather Together initially focuses on familiar commodity crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, and then expands to other yields by Native American harvesters and California floriculturists, as well as winter ice cutters and coastal seaweed gatherers. This novel history of agriculture and art traces parallel developments on land and canvas, highlighting breakthroughs in each field. Artists such as Winslow Homer, Doris Lee, and Georgia O’Keeffe are joined by innovators in agriculture, whether mechanical inventors such as Eli Whitney, John Deere, and Cyrus McCormick or genetic hybridizers such as Luther Burbank, W. Atlee Burpee, and Theodosia Shepherd. Surveying an astonishing amount of material and a wide range of paintings, prints, and other artworks from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, We Gather Together gorgeously demonstrates how the use of agricultural metaphors permeated American visual culture. The harvest, we see here, came to signify and dominate politics, poetry, and popular culture, ultimately representing a primary facet of American identity and nationhood.
Beyond the Mountains
Author: Drew A. SwansonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820353973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region’s environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.
A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests in North Carolina: An Account of the Culture, Handling and Manufacture of the Staple
Author: J. D. CameronPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368858726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Biennial Report of the Librarian of the North Carolina State Library
Author: North Carolina State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
When Tobacco Was King
Author: Evan P. BennettPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813055083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Tobacco has left an indelible mark on the American South, shaping the land and culture throughout the twentieth-century. In the last few decades, advances in technology and shifts in labor and farming policy have altered the way of life for tobacco farmers: family farms have largely been replaced by large-scale operations dependent on hired labor, much of it from other shores. However, the mechanical harvester and the H-2A guestworker did not put an end to tobacco culture but rather sent it in new directions and accelerated the change that has always been part of the farmer’s life. In When Tobacco Was King, Evan Bennett examines the agriculture of the South’s original staple crop in the Old Bright Belt—a diverse region named after the unique bright, or flue-cured, tobacco variety it spawned. He traces the region’s history from Emancipation to the abandonment of federal crop controls in 2004 and highlights the transformations endured by blacks and whites, landowners and tenants, to show how tobacco farmers continued to find meaning and community in their work despite these drastic changes.
