The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco 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. The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862 – 1933 exposes the causes of these changes, and in the proce