Tobacco : the story of how tobacco seduced the world / Iain Gately.
Tobacco : the story of how tobacco seduced the world / Iain Gately.
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Publisher
New York : Grove Press, c2001.
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N394.14/13
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Language
English
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Physical content
403 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
1. To Breathe is to Inhale -- 2. Confrontation -- 3. Transmission -- 4. Bewitched -- 5. Middlemen and Foreign Bottoms -- 6. Magic Dust -- 7. Come the Revolution -- 8. Bandoleros, Scum and Dandies -- 9. The American Preference -- 10. A Class is Born -- 11. Automatic for the People -- 12. Of Cats and...
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Publisher
New York : Grove Press, c2001.
Edition
1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2001.
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Summary
"In Tobacco, Iain Gately charts the epic history of humanity's fascination with our favorite recreational drug, from its obscure beginnings among ancient civilizations, through its rise to global prominence, to its embattled state today. Gately argues that it was the driving force behind the development of global trade, as the foundation of thc Dut...
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Tobacco : the story of how tobacco seduced the world / Iain Gately.
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First published in London by Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-387) and index.
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c2001.
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N394.14/13
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74VvbwqPK023
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ISBN
0802117058
9780802117052
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394.14
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991014703069702626
