The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

Fordham University Press

The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933Author(s): Patrick Mulford OConnor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531510589, 978-1531510589\nSynopsis\nA deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco \n 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.\n The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, [tel] exposes 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 .