Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century

By Ann K. Ferrell

Book Overview

Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. It is difficult for many people to lament the loss of a crop that has come to symbolize addiction, disease, and corporate deception; yet, in Kentucky, the plant has played an important role in economic development and prosperity. Burley tobacco-a light, air-cured variety used in cigarette production-has long been the Commonwealth's largest cash crop and an important aspect of regional identity, along with bourbon, bluegrass

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813142334
• ISBN13: 9780813142333
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up