The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars - Hardcover

Campbell, Tracy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813118212 ISBN 13: 9780813118215

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1993

Synopsis

Tells how, early in the 20th century, tens of thousands of tobacco growers in Kentucky and Tennessee, fed up with the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company, formed cooperatives to keep their produce off the market until they got a decent price. Continues with the revolt's spread to the burley country, where, in 1908, tobacco farmers won the biggest agricultural strike in the country's history. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Review:

"Thoroughly researched and well-written, The Politics of Despair is a major contribution to agricultural history" -- Pete Daniel, author of "Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights"

Synopsis:

Tells how, early in the 20th century, tens of thousands of tobacco growers in Kentucky and Tennessee, fed up with the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company, formed cooperatives to keep their produce off the market until they got a decent price. Continues with the revolt's spread to the burley country, where, in 1908, tobacco farmer

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813118212
• ISBN 13: 9780813118215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223