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| Author | : Wendell Berry |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 2022-07-12 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0813195233 |
With his striking photographs, James Baker Hall powerfully conveys the physical experience of a Kentucky tobacco harvest. He captures the process from the tractor ride out to the field, where rows of tobacco stretch toward the horizon, to the careful, precise cutting of each individual plant, and finally, to hauling the crop away and housing it in the barn. Hall's snapshots of the "gathering of many hands" who come to help and the time-honored practices of the harvest capture the end of an era. Hall's stunning work is accompanied by an essay from Wendell Berry, which provides an insightful meditation on the shifting nature of humans' relationships with the land and with each other. Berry laments the economic, political, and societal changes that have forever altered Kentucky's rich agricultural traditions. He adds a deeply personal perspective to Hall's eloquent visual testimony, sharing memories of stories told, laughs shared, meals savored, and brief moments of rest and refreshment well earned. Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy is a candid portrait of a bygone way of life—a time before cheaper tobacco imported from abroad and a public awareness of the health risks associated with tobacco use nearly destroyed the industry in the United States. Berry's words and Hall's photographs offer an understanding of the high standards and perfectionism required to produce a good harvest, as well as a glimpse of the hot sun, the dirt, and the people hard at work.
| Author | : L. Ryan |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1995-02-28 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780412631306 |
This book reviews all aspects of insect pests of tobacco and the subsequent control methods from the harvesting through to the production and storage of finished tobacco products. Control procedures to eliminate outbreaks of infestation are reviewed and a number of case histories are described to demonstrate integration of the methodologies.
| Author | : T. H. Breen |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2001-08-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0691089140 |
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.
| Author | : Isaiah Brokenleg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781467561228 |
| Author | : G. Melvin Herndon |
| Publisher | : Tredition Classics |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2013-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783849514822 |
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
| Author | : Margaret Wurth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Child labor |
| ISBN | : 9781623131340 |
Methodology -- I. Tobacco farming in the United States -- II. Child tobacco workers in the United States -- III. Health and safety -- IV. Hours, wages, and education -- V. International legal standards -- VI. Obligations of the US government to protect child farmworkers -- VII. Responsibilities of businesses purchasing tobacco in the United States -- VIII. Recommendations -- Acknowledgments.
| Author | : Ann K. Ferrell |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2013-06-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0813142350 |
Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary conflicts with Louis B. Mayer, his four tumultuous marriages, and his swift decline after the introduction of talkies. A dramatic and interesting personality, Gilbert served as one of the primary inspirations for the character of George Valentin in the Academy Award--winning movie The Artist (2011). Many myths have developed around the larger-than-life star in the eighty years since his untimely death, but this definitive biography sets the record straight. Eve Golden separates fact from fiction in John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars, tracing the actor's life from his youth spent traveling with his mother in acting troupes to the peak of fame at MGM, where he starred opposite Mae Murray, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and other actresses in popular films such as The Merry Widow (1925), The Big Parade (1925), Flesh and the Devil (1926), and Love (1927). Golden debunks some of the most pernicious rumors about the actor, including the oft-repeated myth that he had a high-pitched, squeaky voice that ruined his career. Meticulous, comprehensive, and generously illustrated, this book provides a behind-the-scenes look at one of the silent era's greatest stars and the glamorous yet brutal world in which he lived.
| Author | : John van Willigen |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2021-10-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813183987 |
Whereas most crops drive farmers apart as they compete for the best prices, the price controls on tobacco bring growers together. The result is a culture unlike any other in America, one often forgotten or overlooked as federal and state governments fight over the spoils of the tobacco settlement. Tobacco Culture describes the process of raising a crop of burley from the perspective and experience of the farmers themselves. In the process of gathering information for the book, the authors performed most steps in the tobacco production process, from dropping plants, burning seedbeds, topping, and cutting to stripping and baling the finished product. Van Willigen and Eastwood document both present practices and historical developments in tobacco farming at the very moment a way of life stands poised for dramatic change. In addition to growing practices, the authors found other common threads linking growers and tobacco producing regions. Where tobacco is grown, it often becomes the major cash crop and carries the health of the economy. Farmer Oscar Richardson states, "It's bread and butter. It's the industry of the community, the state as a whole.... You take tobacco out of Kentucky and this farmland wouldn't be worth a nickel." Combining cultural anthropology and oral history, John van Willigen and Susan Eastwood have created a remarkable portrait of the heart of the burley belt in Central Kentucky.
| Author | : Peter Benson |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0691149208 |
Tells the story of the people who live and work on US tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. This book explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide.
| Author | : Allan Kulikoff |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2012-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807839221 |
Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development. Allan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.
