Tobacco

Iain Gately

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Author
Iain Gately
Publish Date
2003-01-03
Subtitle
A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
403
Publisher Name
Grove Press
ISBN-10
0802139604
ISBN-13
9780802139603
citemno
070332
Edition
Reprint
Subject
General History & Historiography
SKU
9780802139603

Description

Traces tobacco's evolution from a necessity to a coveted commodity that would forever change the economy by documenting the history of this plant, from its use as a sacred calumet of the Plains Indians to the controversy surrounding it today