Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization by Iain Gately

Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization

Iain Gately

416 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction business history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Tobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it...

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