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Author Gately, Iain, 1965-

Title Tobacco : a cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization / Iain Gately.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Grove Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC Non-Fiction  394.14 Gat 2001    ---  Available
Edition 1st Grove Press paperback ed.
Description 403 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note First published in London by Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-387) and index.
Summary 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 camels -- 13. Stars -- 14. Verboten -- 15. The spy who loved me -- 16. Tumours -- 17. Blowing bubbles -- 18. Man and superman -- 19. Hunde, woltihr ewig leben?
Subject Tobacco -- History.
Tobacco -- Social aspects -- History.
ISBN 0802139604

 
    
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