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Author: Barbara M. Hahn (Texas Tech University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781421425221
ISBN 10: 142142522
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 27 February 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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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. —Environmental History Strongly argued and deeply researched. —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. —Journal of Southern History 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. —Technology and Culture
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. * Environmental History * Strongly argued and deeply researched. * 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. * Journal of Southern History * 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. * Technology and Culture *
Author Information
Barbara Hahn is an associate professor of history at Texas Tech University and the associate editor of Technology and Culture. She is the coauthor of The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans and Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities.
