The Politics of Despair

The Politics of Despair Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars

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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

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ISBN: 9780813118215
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Pub date:
DEWEY: 331.88137109769
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 223
Weight: -1g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm