{"product_id":"9781400820146","title":"Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151785410800,"sku":"9781400820146","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400820146_p0.jpg?v=1763713091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400820146","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}