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A Golden Weed : Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South by Drew A. Swanson, Drew A. Swanson is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Golden Weed : Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South about?

Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco.  A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters.<br>  <br> Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virgi

Who reads A Golden Weed : Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South?

Author

Drew A. Swanson, Drew A. Swanson

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300206814

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Nature, History

Updated

2026-03-25