Tobacco by Iain Gately
A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
A concise cultural history tracing the plant’s journey from ceremonial use in the Americas to its global spread and deep entanglement with commerce, empire, medicine and social ritual; the book examines how tobacco reshaped economies, fashions and everyday habits across centuries while recounting its scientific, political and moral controversies as smoking, snuff and chewing moved from exotic novelty to mass industry and public-health crisis.
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- Published
- 2001
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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