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Smoke: A Global History of Smoking Book

Smoke: A Global History of Smoking
Smoke: A Global History of Smoking, Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history, Smoke: A Global History of Smoking has a rating of 2 stars
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Smoke: A Global History of Smoking, Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history, Smoke: A Global History of Smoking
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  • Smoke: A Global History of Smoking
  • Written by author Sander L. Gilman
  • Published by Reaktion Books, Limited, November 2004
  • Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history
  • Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history
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Introduction9
Ritual smoking in Central America30
The pleasures and perils of smoking in early modern England38
Smoking in sub-Saharan Africa46
Tobacco in Iran58
Smoking and ayurvedic medicine in India68
Tobacco culture in Japan76
Smoking in Imperial China84
Tobacco in Edo period Japan92
How do we smoke? : accessories and utensils100
The Belle Epoque of opium108
The opium den in Victorian London118
Smoking and sociability126
Havana cigars and the West's imagination134
A century of Kretek140
Ganja in Jamaica144
Smoking and all that jazz154
Smoking in modern China160
Smoking in modern Japan172
Cigarettes in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia180
The cocaine experience190
Smoking & sociability197
Symbol and image : smoking in art since the seventeenth century206
The Houkah in the harem : on smoking and orientalist art218
Smoking in opera230
In praise of Lady Nicotine : a bygone era of prose, poetry...and presentation236
Cinematic smoke : from Weimar to Hollywood248
Emblems of emptiness : smoking as a way of life in Jean Eustache's La Maman et al Putain256
Smoking & art265
Jews and smoking278
The commodified African American in nineteenth-century tobacco art286
Women and nineteenth-century images of smoking294
Toward a queer history of smoking304
Gender & ethnicity309
Why do we smoke? : the physiology of smoking318
Smoking, science, and medicine326
Engineering consumer confidence in the twentieth century332
Marlboro man and the stigma of smoking344
Smoking & advertising355


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