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The cigarette : a political history
- Title
- The cigarette : a political history / Sarah Milov.
- Author
- Milov, Sarah, 1984-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-992 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 394 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The Cigarette: A Political History offers a fresh interpretation of tobacco's role in the twentieth century. It argues that tobacco played a vital and emblematic role in the history of twentieth century political economy. Far from being unregulated, tobacco was the most controlled and supported commodity produced in the United States during the twentieth century. The federal tobacco program was remarkably long lived, lasting nearly seven decades and ending only in 2004. By the 1960s, criticisms of the Tobacco industry and its state support were ubiquitous. Under the banner of "non-smokers' rights," by the mid-1970s activists began to rack up an impressive string of victories in curtailing public smoking at the local and state levels. By the final decades of the twentieth century, debates over tobacco were waged primarily on the terrain of its social cost. By placing tobacco at the center of American political economy, The Cigarette: A Political History joins the politics of the body to the American body politic."--
- Subjects
- Smoking > Law and legislation
- Cigarettes
- Tobacco industry
- Tobacco
- Smoking > Law and legislation > United States > History > 20th century
- History
- Cigarettes > United States > History > 20th century
- Tobacco industry > United States > History > 20th century
- United States
- 1900-1999
- Tobacco > United States > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Tobacco in industrializing America -- Tobacco's New Deal -- Cultivating the grower -- The challenge of the public interest -- Inventing the non-smoker -- From rights to cost -- Shredding a net to build a web -- Conclusion: "Weeds are hard to kill": the future of tobacco politics.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-992
- ISBN
- 9780674241213
- 0674241215
- LCCN
- 2019002275
- OCLC
- 1089276741
- Author
- Milov, Sarah, 1984- author.
- Title
- The cigarette : a political history / Sarah Milov.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-992