Jordan Goodman

Tobacco in History

The Cultures of Dependence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the historical transformation of tobacco from Amerindian shamanism to global capitalism, from the food of the spirits to the fatal epidemic, from the rough pipe and cigar to the modern day cigarette.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780415116695
• ISBN-10: 0415116694
• Artikelnr.: 22059337

Autorenporträt

Jordan Goodman

Inhaltsangabe

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?