Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Part I
1. Making Tobacco Virginian
2. Growing the Business
3. Death and Taxes
Part II
4. Ripeness Is All
5. Inventing Tradition
6. Stabilization
Appendix
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Promotional Information

How did Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco come to dominate the industry?

About the Author

Barbara Hahn is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University.

Reviews

A discerning analysis of not only how a commodity-tobacco-was shaped and defined by technology, but also how technology can be influenced by a commodity... This interesting, thorough history will appeal to readers and researchers alike. Highly recommended. Choice Thoroughly researched, engaging, and enjoyable...An excellent first book. -- James C. Giesen Environmental History Strongly argued and deeply researched. -- Evan P. Bennett Agricultural History Hahn has produced an important book, thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, that deserves a wide audience among American historians. Journal of American History Hahn has written an ambitious book that examines how Americans created a commodity whose roots were densely-perhaps inextricably-tangled with those of the growing nation. Her work deserves a broad readership among students of southern agriculture, economic history, and the history of science and technology. -- Max Grivno Journal of Southern History ... Making Tobacco Bright is an impressive book, one that rewrites conventional understandings of tobacco as a crop, a commodity, and a symbol. From Jamestown to contemporary southern fields, Hahn tells an old story in an entirely fresh way. -- Drew A. Swanson Technology and Culture