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Smoke: A Global History of Smoking Hardback - 2004

by Sander L. Gilman (Editor); Xun Zhou (Editor)

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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 of smoking has been written based on the assumption that smoking - in all of its forms and products - is a cultural phenomenon common to all human societies.

Smoke: A Global History of Smoking examines the culture of smoking in different traditions and locations around the world. From opium dens in Victorian England to tobacco in Edo period Japan, and from ganja and cocaine to Havana cigars, Smoke encompasses the subject as no book has before.

Based in cultural history, it employs a large number of images as part of its evidence: around 300 illustrations document smoking and smokers of many substances including tobacco, scented cigarettes, marijuana, opium and cocaine. The various essays examine the changing role of smoking in high and popular culture, ranging from images used in advertising to the legal and moral critiques of smoking, and from opera to the internet. Smoke will appeal to all those who smoke, all those who used to smoke, and all those who have tried, and failed, to give it up.

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  • Title Smoke: A Global History of Smoking
  • Author Sander L. Gilman (Editor); Xun Zhou (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Reaktion Books, London
  • Publication date November 4, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781861892003 / 1861892004
  • Weight 3.34 lbs (1.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.24 x 7.78 x 1.31 in (26.01 x 19.76 x 3.33 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007310116
  • Dewey Decimal Code 394.14

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  • Choice, 06/01/2005, Page 1861

About the author

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over sixty books, including Health and Illness: Images of Difference (Reaktion Books, 1996).

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