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Hemp : from antiquity to 1683 : Pre-feudal and medieval feudal systems: hemp farming through the ages : Russian feudalism and proto-industrial hemp ; Hemp in feudal England and the transition from serf to wage labor ; Hemp in colonial America and the transition from servant to free labor ; Types of hemp: definitions and distinctions ; Hemp versus tobacco: labor and rebellion in the first American colonies ; Bacon's rebellion: prelude to the War of Independence and the Jacksonian revolution ; The impact of Bacon's rebellion ; Discounting local knowledge: the first of many missed opportunities
1690-1865: the emergence of American hemp and the rise of Russian hemp : The Moravian miracle: immigrant ingenuity, spun hemp, and another missed opportunity : Genteel agrarianism and a pervasive aversion to industrialization ; From slave to wage labor: the history of Kentucky hemp ; The history and demand for Russian hemp ; Russian hemp and the War of 1812 ; Kentucky leadership and the War of 1812 ; The war of 1812: the impact on the American political economy and on slavery ; Division in Kentucky's hemp planting families: the persistent problem of slavery ; Slavery and western expansion: wages versus tariffs and protection ; Slavery versus wage slaves: gang labor in the North, the first front of civil war
Hemp production from 1865 to the end of the Second World War : The shift in American labor: before and after the Civil War : The First World War and a tentative return to expanding US hemp production ; Wisconsin and Kentucky hemp: a growing and changing rivalry ; Losing ground to commonwealth cotton and Pacific "hemp" ; Bump in the road to mobilization: reefer madness versus hemp for victory ; Industrial intrigue theories: Rockefeller, Big Pharma, and the specter of conspiracy ; The emerging petroleum chemical industry complex and the automobile revolution ; Reefer madness and the hemp ban: compliance through tax versus the racial hatred theory ; Opportunities to sustain production: hemp for victory and possibly for paper ; Beyond mobilization: hemp sees combat during the Second World War ; The government's missed opportunity to sustain hemp after war
Twenty-first-century economic competition : Hemp goes high tech ; Chinese hemp innovations and areas of shared interests ; Canada: new frontiers of hemp research and development ; US hemp: exploring paper, computing, and other frontiers ; Opportunities for transplanting high-tech hemp applications to the United States.
1690-1865: the emergence of American hemp and the rise of Russian hemp : The Moravian miracle: immigrant ingenuity, spun hemp, and another missed opportunity : Genteel agrarianism and a pervasive aversion to industrialization ; From slave to wage labor: the history of Kentucky hemp ; The history and demand for Russian hemp ; Russian hemp and the War of 1812 ; Kentucky leadership and the War of 1812 ; The war of 1812: the impact on the American political economy and on slavery ; Division in Kentucky's hemp planting families: the persistent problem of slavery ; Slavery and western expansion: wages versus tariffs and protection ; Slavery versus wage slaves: gang labor in the North, the first front of civil war
Hemp production from 1865 to the end of the Second World War : The shift in American labor: before and after the Civil War : The First World War and a tentative return to expanding US hemp production ; Wisconsin and Kentucky hemp: a growing and changing rivalry ; Losing ground to commonwealth cotton and Pacific "hemp" ; Bump in the road to mobilization: reefer madness versus hemp for victory ; Industrial intrigue theories: Rockefeller, Big Pharma, and the specter of conspiracy ; The emerging petroleum chemical industry complex and the automobile revolution ; Reefer madness and the hemp ban: compliance through tax versus the racial hatred theory ; Opportunities to sustain production: hemp for victory and possibly for paper ; Beyond mobilization: hemp sees combat during the Second World War ; The government's missed opportunity to sustain hemp after war
Twenty-first-century economic competition : Hemp goes high tech ; Chinese hemp innovations and areas of shared interests ; Canada: new frontiers of hemp research and development ; US hemp: exploring paper, computing, and other frontiers ; Opportunities for transplanting high-tech hemp applications to the United States.