Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 355 g
The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 355 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-08914-0
Verlag: Princeton University Press
The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries lived in a world that was dominated by questions of debt from across an ocean but also one that stressed personal autonomy.T. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence. He examines the value-laden relationships--found in both the fields and marketplaces--that led from tobacco to politics, from agrarian experience to political protest, and finally to a break with the political and economic system that they believed threatened both personal independence and honor.
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Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Sonstige Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations ix Preface to the Second Paperback Edition xi Preface xxv Acknowledgments xxix I. An Agrarin Context for Radical Ideas 3 II. Tobacco Mentality 40 II. Planters and Merchants: A Kind of Friendship 84 IV. Loss of Independence 124 V. Politicizing the Discourse: Tobacco, Debt and the Coming of Revolution 160 Epilogue: A New Beginning 204 Index 211
