{"product_id":"the-political-reconstruction-of-american-tobacco-1862-1933-paperback-softback-9781531510596","title":"The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531510596","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Mulford O’Connor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531510596\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 16 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.336 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation following the American Civil War. From labor to consumption, manufacturing to regulation, tobacco was utterly reconstructed, \"comparatively a new industry,\" as one contemporary wrote.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e1933 \u003c\/i\u003eexposes the causes of these changes, and in the process, it reconsiders cornerstones of the American national narrative. Through a detailed rendering of tobacco's late-nineteenth-century political economy, this book argues that the federal state's and American capitalism's development were mutually constitutive—and fundamentally political—processes. From the Civil War to the Progressive Era, diverse political movements across tobacco's commodity chain drove state and market development, creating the immense power and stifling poverty that defined tobacco's reconstruction. \u003ci\u003eThe Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e1933 \u003c\/i\u003eemphasizes the significance of the thousands of manufacturers whose interest groups shaped federal tax policy and, in turn, forged a powerful and effective internal revenue system; the increasingly influential fertilizer producers and warehouse operators who determined tobacco's value; and the crop scientists who sought to promote and rationalize US tobacco production. As these actors reshaped tobacco's commodity chain, they missed, and even dismissed, the interests of tobacco growers, especially newly emancipated African Americans and smallholding whites throughout the South.\u003cbr\u003e The ruling logic of tobacco's reconstructed political economy rationalized agrarian indebtedness, justified low prices, and intensified labor discipline on thousands of small farms. In emphasizing these exclusions, \u003ci\u003eThe Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003e1933 \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how nineteenth-century state and economic development coincided with and even created rural poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003e\"An Acknowledged Power in the Land\":\u003cbr\u003e Tobacconists, Taxation, and the Politics of Market Creation, 1862–1872   10\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003e\"A Hard Law at Best\": The Political Economy of Tobacco Taxation\u003cbr\u003e from Depression to Surplus, 1873–1890   40\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eTobacco's \"Imperfect Knowledge\": Governance, Classification, and \u003cbr\u003e Conflict in the World Tobacco Market, 1865–1890   65\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003e\"The Road to Prosperity\":\u003cbr\u003e Power and the Politics of Quality on the Bright Tobacco Frontier, 1865–1900   88\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Health of the State: The USDA, Agricultural Hegemony, and the\u003cbr\u003e Federal Improvement of Tobacco Quality, 1890–1933   113\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/b\u003e Revising Tobacco Politics in the Twentieth Century   144\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  151\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  203\u003cbr\u003e Index   219\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685678543128,"sku":"9781531510596","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-political-reconstruction-of-american-tobacco-1862-1933-paperback-softback-9781531510596","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}