... attention to the agricultural history of the area. As a result, much about agricultural choices and rural life in the region remains unexplored, and our understanding remains incomplete. The story of bright tobacco in southern Appalachia serves as a reminder that some Appalachian farmers, rather than merely...

...Peter Wallenstein Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900 . Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie . 706 / Agricultural History an essential acquisition. [A 1999 video release of the NEH-funded film en? titled "Oahe: A Question of Values...

...Evan P. Bennett Abstract In 1994 the Virginia legislature created a vehicle license plate to memorialize the state's long history of tobacco agriculture. Other states have likewise created plates to allow drivers to voice support for farmers. Like Virginia's “Tobacco Heritage” plate, many use...

...Karl Gerth Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010 . By Carol Benedict . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 352 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26277-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews Fitting shows...

...Evan P. Bennett Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937 . By Barbara Hahn . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2011 . 246 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-0286-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews Making...

...Sally McMurry Connecticut Valley Vernacular: The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields . James F. O’Gorman . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 620 / Agricultural History Leicester sheep. Much of the rest of Genetic Prehistory...

...Russell R. Menard Abstract This essay develops an American approach to the rise of the English Atlantic during the seventeenth century. It argues that productivity gains in plantation agriculture fueled an extraordinary expansion of commerce as planters raising tobacco, sugar, and rice improved...

...William A. Morgan Abstract Focusing on the province of Pinar del Río, the epicenter of Cuban tobacco cultivation, this article intends to correct a historiography that has either marginalized or inaccurately stereotyped the size and scale of Cuba’s tobacco economy, primarily by failing to recognize...

...Christopher Waldrep Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy . James Baker Hall and Wendell Berry . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 130 / Agricultural History people lived on a daily basis, but to enter into their mentalite. From a welter of small accounts, he develops a map...

...Barbara Hahn Abstract This article compares two episodes of technology transfer in the 1890s: the movement of bright tobacco production technology to south-central Africa with the spread of the crop to eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. It finds similarities in the people who introduced...

...A. V. Huff, Jr. Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina . Eldred E. Prince Jr. . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 123 scriptions. Although the book is generally well written, Rehder occasionally lapses into the jargon of the cultural...

...Drew Swanson When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont . By Evan P. Bennett . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . 162 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-6014-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...

...Evan P. Bennett A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South . By Drew A. Swanson . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19116-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall...

...Rosa Elena Carrasquillo Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and US Colonialism . By Teresita A. Levy . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2015 . 200 pp., $28.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-7132-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...

...Drew Swanson Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century . By Ann K. Ferrell . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2013 . 328 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-4233-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Winter may not have been all...

...Juan José Baldrich Abstract This article examines the transition of the Puerto Rican operations of the “Tobacco Trust” from a cigarette manufacturing operation in 1899 to an agribusiness by 1911. The Porto Rican American Tobacco Company (PRATCO) created monopolistic conditions by absorbing the two...

...Sarah Milov Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry . By Peter Benson . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2012 . 336 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-691-14920-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Juan José Baldrich The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World . By Charlotte Cosner . Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2015 . 232 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8265-2032-6. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Book Reviews Global...

...Sibanengi Ncube [email protected] Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe . By Elijah Doro . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . 332 pp., $110.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781009098397 . Copyright © 2024...

...Patrick Lee Dunsworth successfully shows labor changing in the tobacco farms of southwestern Ontario, making the work a brilliant case study for examining agricultural labor practices in Canada from 1920 through 2020. It is such a strong example of the evolution of labor in Canada that one might...