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Author:

Gately, Iain, 1965-

Title:

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

Edition:

1st Grove Press paperback ed.

Publisher:

Grove Press,

Copyright Date:

2002?

Description:

403 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Tobacco--History.
Tobacco--History.--History.

Notes:

Originally published in London by Simon & Schuster, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-387) and index.

Contents:

19. Hunde, wolt ihr ewig leben? 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, wolt ihr ewig leben?

ISBN:

9780802139603 (pbk.)
0802139604 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51549720

Locations:

ACPD686 -- Carnegie-Evans Public Library (Albia)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

VKPE334 -- Oelwein Public Library (Oelwein)