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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $15.00
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Description
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 became something else entirely -- a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success, and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever. Iain Gately's Tobacco tells the epic story of an unusual plant and its unique relationship with the history of humanity, from its obscure ancient beginnings, through its rise to global prominence, to its current embattled state today. In a lively narrative, Gately makes the case for the tobacco trade being the driving force behind the growth of the American colonies, the foundation of Dutch trading empire, the underpinning cause of the African slave trade, and the financial basis for our victory in the American Revolution. Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant.
Iain Gately's Tobacco is a sweeping cultural history of the world's most prevalent addiction, and it's probably the best book ever written on its subject. Gately begins in pre-Columbian America, where the natives made tobacco "their most popular gift to the rest of humanity," and continues through all the cantankerous smoking litigation of the 1990s. The story touches on just about every subject imaginable: tobacco in literature, the movies, and society. It would be wrong to call Gately an advocate of smoking, but he clearly takes pleasure, for example, in noting that Hitler's Nazis launched one of history's most vigorous anti-smoking initiatives. The book is full of delicious trivia: Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries smoked, but there's no evidence that the Bard himself did, and none of his plays make any mention of smoking; he "kept his writing a smoke-free zone." Nevertheless, reports Gately with a smirk, there is "archaeological evidence proving that smoking was going on around the Shakespeare household in Stratford-upon-Avon during his life." Smoking aficionados won't want to miss Tobacco, and it's a much healthier gift for them than a box of cigars. --John Miller
Reviews
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-05-10
Summary: "Moderately interesting book, generalized on Tobacco"
This book is a little more generalized overview of the tobacco smoking history than I had hoped for. However there are portions of the book that are entertaining and informative. Good overview of the subject for those who are searching for this type of book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-07
Summary: "Great book"
The book explains the history of tobacco, since the origin until present days.
It's a great contribution to who wants to know more than the media shows, AKA, the tobacco industry war.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-02-27
Summary: "A history book it's not"
Over the years, I've read history books on topics my family finds weird, like beans, sugar and chocolate. So I thought this one would be like them; unfortunately, it's not.
The first problems come with the title: 'A cultural History..." As a man with a History BA, it bothers me that the author, when quoting people or facts, doesn't put in a footnote or at least a number with which to find the source in the end of the book; one must flip to the back, where the sources are listed by page number, and you have to go back and re-read the page to find out what exactly you were looking up in the first page (if it's even sited). For example, for the quote "Gentlemen you may smoke" on page 219, in the back the author states "...they are however repeated by many tobacco historians, whom I will join". Who are they? A historian would site their source, but this is not really a history...
Blanket statements like that are rife, but even worse are the "pro-tobacco" sentiments of the author. On page 321, the author states "Unlike lung cancer, the mechanism by which smoking caused heart attacks was easier to prove." Then the author states that all mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats, and the speeding up causes heart attacks.
How can such a statement be made? Lung cancer is linked to tobacco smoking like 'Black lung' to coal miners. The author had also previously stated that lung cancer could be caused by smoking. Why did they suudenly backtrack on their own statement in the same book.
And of course, that particular passage on page 321 has no sources.
Finally, there is page 346.
"Although ETS (passive smoking) is commonly declared to cause an increased risk of lung cancer, in particular in Great Britain, reliable studies have not found this to be so. The American Cancer Society's massive cohort study of 250,000 people published in 1997 did not find a significant relation between passive smoking and lung cancer."
Again, no sources.
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Page 163:
"With respect to our first hypothesis, our study found that non-smokers exposed to ETS from current spousal smoking are at higher risk of fatal lung cancer than are non- smokers not exposed to ETS. However, we failed to provide precise estimates, and the 95% CI included the null value. Current spousal smoking increased the risk of lung cancer of non-smokers (both men and women) by 30% (0.8-1.9). Our study did not find an overall association with self-reported ETS exposure. However, we found indication that missing data on reported hours of exposure to ETS may have introduced misclassification, thus biasing the results towards the null."
It did not find an overall association "with self-reported ETS exposure". Let me say that again, SELF-REPORTED EXPOSURE. The final sentence even explains why that occured, because people did not report the correct hours.
But Iain Gately twisted the words.
That's when I washed my hands of this book, for it is neither historical nor factual.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-09-28
Summary: "Fascinating Reality"
A book that every highschool all over the world must read. Well think about it, do you live or have lived in a world without Tobacco around you?. A book for everybody that cares for history, here and then. Worth my time.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-05-20
Summary: "Robusto!"
I really do not understand the objections that other reviewers had to this book. Gately put together a lively, enchanting narrative concerning the history of tobacco. He covers a great many things and does not fail to include the words of those who once sung its praises. That's what should be done whenever one wishes to tell a "complete" story about anything. He does not self-censor his prose which is exactly what those of us most interested in the truth deeply desire. This book isn't titled "Quit Smoking," it's a cultural history of tobacco. Anyway, Gately presents statistics and analysis elucidating the dangers inherent to using the infamous weed. He outlines the positions of the state and depicts lung cancer as the private hell it clearly is. Smoking is a personal choice and there's no reason to ban it as the prohibition of substances has not met with much success over the years. I'm sure the author would agree with my conclusion but that does not mean he is depicting tobacco in a favorable light. This book was a serious page-turner and I enjoyed it very much. I recommend it without reservation.