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Author Breen, T. H.

Title Tobacco culture : the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve of Revolution / T.H. Breen.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1985]
©1985

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  975.503 B832T    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Contents: An agrarian context for radical ideas - Tobacco mentality - Planters and merchants : a kind of friendship - Loss of independence - Politicizing the discourse : Tobacco, debt and the coming of revolution - Epilogue : a new beginning
Subject Plantation owners -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Tobacco industry -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Case studies.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Case studies.
Indexed Term Virginia Tobacco industries & trades, 1760-1775
ISBN 0691047294 alkaline paper $19.50
9780691047294 alkaline paper
0691005966 paperback
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