Barbara M Hahn: 2 books
Making Tobacco Bright
Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant’s many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation.
Hahn focuses her study on the most popular...
Plantation Kingdom
The American South and Its Global Commodities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities...