title: Tobacco Culture
author:  T. H. Breen 
description: "Breen writes clearly and argues well. . . . <i>Tobacco Culture</i> is enjoyable."<b>---Allen Boyer, <i>New York Times</i></b><br /><br />"T. H. Breen's important new book attempts to explain why the great Virginia Planters embraced the Revolutionary cause with so much enthusiasm. He argues that growing indebtedness to British merchants after 1750 jeopardized the planters' traditional dominance, finally precipitating `a major cultural crisis' in the years immediately preceding Independence. Breen's major contribution is to delineate the `mentality' of the great planters of the period when private and public distress converged. . . . It is a superb contribution to the literature of the American Revolution."<b>---Peter S. Onuf, <i>William and Mary Quarterly</i></b>
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  S C R I B N E R **** _TU R N I N G P O I N T S_ _ ****_ L I B R A R Y
  
  Tobacco
  
  in History and Culture
  
  A N E N C Y C L O P E D I A
  
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  Culture
  
  A N E N C Y C L O P E D I A
  
  Editorial Board
  
   **Editor in Chief**
  
   **JORDAN GOODMAN**
  
  Honorary Research Fellow
  
  Wellcome Trust Centre
  
  University College, London
  
   **Board Members**
  
   **MARCY NORTON**
  
  Assistant Professor of History
  
  George Washington University
  
   **MARK PARASCANDOLA**
  
  Cancer Prevention Fellow
  
  National Cancer Institute
  
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  S C R I B N E R **** _T U R N I N G P O I N T S_ _ ****_ L I B R A R Y
  
  Tobacco
  
  in History and Culture
  
  A N E N C Y C L O P E D I A
  
  J O R D A N G O O D M A N
  
  Editor in Chief
  
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