| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Yale Agrarian Studies Series |
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: Introduction -- TWO: Peppermint in America -- THREE: Essence and Peddlers -- FOURE: Migration -- FIVE: Prize Medal Oil of Peppermint -- SIX: Peppermint Bank -- SEVEN: The Dark Side of Family Business -- EIGHT: Crystal White -- NINE: Socialist Capitalist -- TEN: Global Peppermint -- ELEVEN: Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
An unexplored, fascinating history of nineteenth-century agrarian life, told through the engaging lens of three families central to the peppermint oil industry This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural people of their time. Challenging the standard paradigms, historian Dan Allosso focuses on the rural characters who lived by their own rules and did not acquiesce to contemporary religious doctrines, business mores, and political expediencies. The Ranneys, a secular family in a very religious time and place; the Hotchkisses, who ran banks and printed their own money while the Lincoln administration was eliminating state banking; and the Todd family, who incorporated successful business practices with populist socialism, all highlight the untold story of rural America's engagement with the capitalist marketplace. The families' atypical attitudes and activities offer unexpected perspectives on rural business and life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2020) |
| Subject |
Essences and essential oils industry -- United States -- History
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Peppermint oil -- United States -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th century.
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Essences and essential oils industry
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Peppermint oil
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0300252625 |
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9780300252620 |
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