Author: Compton MackenziePublisher:
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Category : Smoking
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Sublime Tobacco
Author: Compton MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Smoking
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Cigarettes are Sublime
Author: Richard KleinPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Klein wanted to find out what was so alluring about smoking that for all his good sense and determination and the intense public pressure, he had to struggle so hard to quit. The result is a survey of the meaning and significance of cigarettes in literature, films, war, sex, and other realms throughout the world. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Sublime Tobacco
Author: Sir Compton MackenziePublisher:
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Category : Tobacco
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Tobacco
Author: Iain GatelyPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802198481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
“A rich, complex history . . . Deeply engaging and witty” (Los Angeles Times). Long before Columbus arrived in the New Word, tobacco was cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely—a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success, and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever. Iain Gately’s Tobacco tells the epic story of an unusual plant and its unique relationship with the history of humanity, from its obscure ancient beginnings, through its rise to global prominence, to its current embattled state today. In a lively narrative, Gately makes the case for the tobacco trade being the driving force behind the growth of the American colonies, the foundation of Dutch trading empire, the underpinning cause of the African slave trade, and the financial basis for victory in the American Revolution. Well-researched and wide-ranging, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look at the surprising roles this plant has played in the culture of the world. “Ambitious . . . informative and perceptive . . . Gately is an amusing writer, which is a blessing.” —The Washington Post “Documents the resourcefulness with which human beings of every class, religion, race, and continent have pursued the lethal leaf.” —The New York Times Book Review
Tobacco
Author: Charles A. LilleyPublisher:
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Category : Tobacco industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Tobacconalia
Author: James Irving CrabbePublisher:
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Category : Nicotine addiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Whifflets
Author: Smoke
Author: Sander L. GilmanPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861892003
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
People have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether for pleasure or relief, whether as part of an elaborate religious ritual or merely to strike a pose. This is the first truly comprehensive history of smoking, describinbg all of its forms, practices, paraphernalia and materials, in cultures, locations and times throughout the world.
The Global Cigarette
Author: Howard CoxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019154454X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
During the 1880s, the tobacco manufacturing industries of Britain and America were revolutionized by the introduction of mechanized cigarette production. The development of this novel, image-laden product constituted a triumph for the methods of mass production and mass distribution in this most traditional of consumer goods industries. The Global Cigarette charts the way in which these innovations in manufacturing and marketing methods led to the formation in 1902 of the British American Tobacco Co. as an Anglo-American multinational joint venture designed to promote cigarettes in international markets. Based on archive materials from a wide variety of sources, including the company's own internal records, this book provides the first authoritative account of BAT's evolution and growth up until the Second World War. In particular, The Global Cigarette shows the way in which the company developed a vast array of international operating subsidiaries, explores how it managed these enterprises in different political and cultural contexts–notably in China and India–and analyses the way in which the company, as a mature multinational enterprise, coped with the severe international economic dislocations of the 1930s. In the era of globalization, this account of the operational and organizational arrangements of a prefigurative 'global' company will shed light on current debates on alliances, joint ventures, and international business.
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