The smoke of the gods : a social history of tobacco /
Fox New Watch host Eric Burns, who chronicled the social history of alcohol in The Spirits of America turns to tobacco in The Smoke of the Gods. Ranging from ancient times to the present day, The Smoke of the Gods is a lively history of tobacco, especially in the United States. Although tobacco use...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press
2007.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14bt0m0 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The ancient world
- The Old World
- The enemies of tobacco
- The politics of tobacco
- The rise of tobacco
- Rush to judgment
- Ghost, body, and soul
- The cigarette
- The Carry Nation of tobacco
- The last good time
- The case against tobacco
- The turning point
- Epilogue: "The ten o'clock people."