{"product_id":"tobacco-culture-t-h-breen-9780691089140","title":"Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. H. Breen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691089140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691089140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.58w x 0.65d","brand":"T. H. Breen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946940825855,"sku":"9780691089140","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b381982d-8476-44cc-b0ba-ccf522a2929e.jpg?v=1681515831","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tobacco-culture-t-h-breen-9780691089140","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}