Tobacco Counterpoints
Cuba and the Global Habano
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Amaurea Press
Published:17th Oct '24
Should be back in stock very soon
Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender, nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of Tobacco on the Periphery (a new expanded edition of which was published by Amaurea Press in 2023). Her foundational work on Cuban tobacco, and especially the Havana cigar, led her to trace cultivation, trade, manufacture, labour and consumption on a regional and global scale, linking commodity and migration histories, drawing on sociological, anthropological and agronomic approaches, as well as archival and oral history. Now for the first time, her extensive writings have been collected into a single volume, containing 19 of her tobacco-related articles published between 1982 and 2024.
"Jean Stubbs' work is a most welcome contribution to the scholarship on Cuba." -- Louis A. Pérez Jr, author of Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution
"In her humorous and sometimes caustic style, Jean Stubbs shows that tobacco, particularly the Havana cigar, was and is of great socio-economic, cultural and political consequence within and outside Cuba." -- Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, author of Colonising Plants of Bihar
"Jean Stubbs' work offers a before and after in the study of tobacco in Cuba." -- Vicent Sanz Rozalén, co-editor of Grandes vicios, grandes ingresos
"Her work is and will continue to be obligatory reading for scholars and all those with an interest in themes such as these." -- Zoe Nocedo Primo, Director, Museo del Tabaco, Havana, 1999-2018)
ISBN: 9781914278730
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 754g
480 pages