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Author

Hahn, Barbara, 1967-

Title Making tobacco bright : creating an American commodity, 1617-1937 / Barbara Hahn.

Publication Info.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations, maps.
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Series	Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-217) and index.
Contents	Prologue -- Making tobacco Virginian -- Growing the business -- Death and taxes -- Ripeness is all -- Inventing tradition -- Stabilization -- Appendix 1: Essay on sources -- Appendix 2: The real thing : tobacco genetics.
Note	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 4, 2013).
Subject	Tobacco industry -- United States -- History.
	Tobacco industry -- Virginia -- History.
	Tobacco -- United States -- History.
	Tobacco -- Virginia -- History.
	United States -- Commerce -- History.
	Virginia -- Commerce -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9781421402864
	9781421404813 (electronic bk.)