Tobacco in history : the cultures of dependence / Jordan Goodman

London : Routledge, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.