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Peppermint kings [electronic resource] : a rural american history / Dan Allosso

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Allosso, Dan
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
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ISBN
0300236824
9780300236828
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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