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Agriculture
Author_T. H. Breen
Bankruptcy
British Empire
Bushel
Carter Braxton
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Clifford Geertz
Colonial Williamsburg
Colonist (The X-Files)
Commodity
Competition
Consignment
Correspondent
Creditor
Criticism
Cultivation of tobacco
Cultivator
Currency
Customer
Debt
Debtor
Deference
Disaster
Economics
Economy
Embarrassment
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Etiquette
Frugality
Generosity
Hogshead
Humanities
Humiliation
Ideology
Indulgence
Insolvency
Institution
John Baylor
Laborer
Landon Carter
Lee family
Literature
Morton White
Mr.
New York Public Library
Newspaper
Obligation
On the Eve
Oppression
Pamphlet
Payment
Personal autonomy
Philosopher
Politics
Popularity
Protest
Puritans
Republicanism
Rhetoric
Richard Henry Lee
Ruling class
Slavery
St. George Tucker
The Debt
The London Merchant
Tobacco
Venality
Virginia Historical Society
Wealth
William Byrd II
William Byrd III
Product details
- ISBN 9780691089140
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
