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Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Zhou Xun

Smoke

A Global History of Smoking

408 pages, 100 color plates, 200 halftones    

Cloth $38.00

ISBN: 9781861892003   Published November 2004
For sale in North and South America only

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Introduction - Sander L. Gilman and Zhou Xun
SMOKING IN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Ritual Smoking in Central America - Francis Robicsek
The Pleasures and Perils of Smoking in Early Modern England - Tanya Pollard
Smoking in Sub-Saharan Africa - Allen F. Roberts
Tobacco in Iran - Rudi Matthee
Smoking and Ayurvedic Medicine in India - P. Ram Manohar
Tobacco Culture in Japan - Barnabas Tatsuya Suzuki
Smoking in Imperial China - Timothy Brook
Tobacco in Edo Period Japan - Timon Screech
How Do We Smoke? Accessories and Utensils - Ben Rapaport
The Belle Epoque of Opium - Jos Ten Berge
The Opium Den in Victorian London - Barry Milligan
Smoking and Sociability - Matthew Hilton
Havana Cigars and the West's Imagination - Jean Stubbs
A Century of Kretek - Mark Hanusz
Ganja in Jamaica - J. Edward Chamberlin and Barry Chevannes
Smoking and All That Jazz - Stephen Cottrell
Smoking in Modern China - Zhou Xun
Smoking in Modern Japan - Daniel Gilman
Cigarettes in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia - Ruth Mandel
The Cocaine Experience - Alberto Castoldi
Smoking & Sociability
SMOKING IN ART AND LITERATURE
Symbol and Image: Smoking in Art since the Seventeenth Century - Benno Tempel
The Houkah in the Harem: On Smoking and Orientalist Art - Ivan Davidson Kalmar
Smoking in Opera - Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
In Praise of Lady Nicotine: A Bygone Era of Prose, Poetry...and Presentation - Eugene Umberger
Cinematic Smoke: From Weimar to Hollywood - Noah Isenberg
Emblems of Emptiness: Smoking as a Way of Life in Jean Eustache's La Maman et la Putain - Dawn Marlan
Smoking & Art
SMOKING, GENDER AND ETHNICITY
Jews and Smoking - Sander L. Gilman
The Commodified African American in Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Art - Dolores Mitchell
Women and Nineteenth-Century Images of Smoking - Dolores Mitchell
Toward a Queer History of Smoking - Robyn L. Schiffman
Gender & Ethnicity
SMOKING: THE 'BURNING ISSUE'
Why Do We Smoke?: The Physiology of Smoking - Leslie Iverson
Smoking, Science and Medicine - John Welshman
Engineering Consumer Confidence in the Twentieth Century - Allan M. Brandt
Marlboro Man and the Stigma of Smoking - Patrick W. Corrigan
Smoking & Advertising
References
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
Subjects



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