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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
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