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Revealing the complex web of dependence and relationships surrounding the controversial plant, a comprehensive survey of tobacco encompasses colonialism, consumerism, medical discourse, and multinational enterprise in its progression from food of the spirits to fatal epidemic. Reprint. IP.
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Jordan Goodman is Lecturer in International Economic History at the University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology.
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"Goodman has written a book which is both history and current affairs, which skillfully weaves together the planters, the slaves, and the multiantional corporation.."
-J. V. Beckett, "THES
"Jordan Goodman's excellent book ... is a succinct yet ambittiously comprehensive survey of five conturies of nicotine in history. It is addictive reading.."
-John Adamson, "Sunday Telegraph
." . . a stimulating perspective . . . packed with interesting discoveries. "Tobacco in History stands as a valuable effort to explain how the whole world became, and remains, addicted to this deadly intoxicant."
-"The Journal of American History
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0415049636
- ISBN 13 9780415049634
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages280
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 280pages; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-274) and index. Contents: Incomplete contents 1. What is Tobacco? The Botany, Economics and Chemistry of a Strange Plant 2. Food of the Spirits: Shaminism, Healing and Tobacco in Amerindian Cultures 3. Why Tobacco? Europeans, Forbidden Fruits and the Panacea Gospel 4. Rituals, Fashions and a Medical Discourse: Tobacco Consumption Before the Cigarette 5. "The Little White Slaver": Cigarettes, Health and the Hard Sell 6. "Wholly Built Upon Smoke": the Impact of Colonialism 7. "Tobaccy's King Down Here . ": Planter Culture to 1800 8. A Poor Man's Crop? The Globalization of Tobacco Culture Since 1800 9. "To Live By Smoke": Tobacco is Big Business Conclusion 10. To Die by Smoke: Whither Tobacco?Subjects: Tobacco History.Tobacco Social aspects.Smoking History. Tobacco History. Tobacco Social aspects. Smoking History.Smoking History of.Smoking. Tobacco.Tobacco Social aspects.Tobacco industryHistory. Social aspectsNicotiana tabacumSolanaceae (K). Economic botany. Drugs. Nicotiana rustica. Tobacco use disorder History. Tobacco Sociology. Tobacco historySmoking history. TobaccoSmoking Social aspects.Tobacco habit Social aspects. Tabac Histoire.Tabac Aspect social.Tabagisme Histoire.Tabaksgebruik. Tobacco History. Tobacco Social aspects. Smoking History.Tobacco industry History.Geschichte. KulturTabak. GeschichteCigarettes. Business.Tobacco. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 388793
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Tobacco in history : the cultures of dependence / Jordan Goodman
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 280pages; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-274) and index. Contents: Incomplete contents 1. What is Tobacco? The Botany, Economics and Chemistry of a Strange Plant 2. Food of the Spirits: Shaminism, Healing and Tobacco in Amerindian Cultures 3. Why Tobacco? Europeans, Forbidden Fruits and the Panacea Gospel 4. Rituals, Fashions and a Medical Discourse: Tobacco Consumption Before the Cigarette 5. "The Little White Slaver": Cigarettes, Health and the Hard Sell 6. "Wholly Built Upon Smoke": the Impact of Colonialism 7. "Tobaccy's King Down Here . ": Planter Culture to 1800 8. A Poor Man's Crop? The Globalization of Tobacco Culture Since 1800 9. "To Live By Smoke": Tobacco is Big Business Conclusion 10. To Die by Smoke: Whither Tobacco?Subjects: Tobacco History.Tobacco Social aspects.Smoking History. Tobacco History. Tobacco Social aspects. Smoking History.Smoking History of.Smoking. Tobacco.Tobacco Social aspects.Tobacco industryHistory. Social aspectsNicotiana tabacumSolanaceae (K). Economic botany. Drugs. Nicotiana rustica. Tobacco use disorder History. Tobacco Sociology. Tobacco historySmoking history. TobaccoSmoking Social aspects.Tobacco habit Social aspects. Tabac Histoire.Tabac Aspect social.Tabagisme Histoire.Tabaksgebruik. Tobacco History. Tobacco Social aspects. Smoking History.Tobacco industry History.Geschichte. KulturTabak. GeschichteCigarettes. Business.Tobacco. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 388793
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