The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars

by Tracy Campbell and Tracy Campbell

Book Overview

Shortly after 1900, tens of thousands of tobacco growers throughout Kentucky and Tennessee convulsed the region for nearly a decade in a revolt against the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company. Though the revolt known as the Tobacco Wars remains one of the more remarkable insurgencies of rural America, it is also one of the more misunderstood. In this first major account of the uprising in over half a century, Tracy Campbell tells...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191300
• ISBN13: 9780813191300
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher