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...Richard Graham A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860 . By Barickman B. J. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 276 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 1999...

...Jonathan Curry-Machado The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World . By Cosner Charlotte . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2014 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 214 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press...

...Susan G. Polansky Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World . By Norton Marcy . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Index . xiv , 339 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright 2010...

...Teresita A. Levy [email protected] Smoker beyond the Sea: The Story of Puerto Rican Tobacco . By Juan José Baldrich . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 272 pp. Paper, $30.00...

...M. Bianet Castellanos Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use among the Maya . Edited by Jennifer A. Loughmiller-Cardinal and Keith Eppich . Foreword by John E. Staller Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2019 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Figures. Table. Notes...

...T. Patrick Culbert The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion . By Robicsek Francis . Foreword by Coe Michael D. and Goodnight Barbara A. . Norman , 1978 . University of Oklahoma Press . Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxv , 233...

... in colonial rule, the tobacco monopoly. Finally, these testimonies inform Frederick about more mundane yet elusive topics such as plebeian life experiences. Frederick's contextualization of such a vast array of information in his analysis of Papantla's local uprisings represents a strength of the work...

...Neici M. Zeller State and Society in the Dominican Republic . By Betances Emelio . Boulder : West-view Press , 1995 . Maps. Bibliography. Index . xviii , 162 pp. Cloth , $52.00 . Paper . $17.00 . Peasants and Tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1870-1930 . By Baud...

...John E. Kicza Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico . By Deans-Smith Susan . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1992 . Maps. Graphs. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxi, 362 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1994...

...Leland H. Jenks Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar . By Ortiz Fernando . Translated from the Spanish by de Onís Harriet . Introduction by Malinowski Bronislaw . Prologue by Vilá Herminio Portell . ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1947 . Pp. xxi , 310 , xiii...

...Charlotte A. Cosner This work is well researched, drawing on both archival and extensive Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English-language secondary sources. This study's audience is primarily scholars interested in tobacco, Atlantic trade, and monopolies in general. However, graduate courses...

... . Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. 462 pp. Paper . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The authors of this well-researched book offer a thorough, mainly quantitative analysis of the Iberian and colonial tobacco monopoly between 1717 and 1817. Yet this history of tobacco begins...

... by Duke University Press 2020 This edited volume examines how tobacco commercialization and taxation contributed to support the Iberian Atlantic monarchies, particularly focusing on how the early modern Spanish and Portuguese crowns and bureaucracies benefited from the tobacco monopoly. While...

...David W. Walker 62 For the post-1844 speculations in tobacco debt bonds, see Walker, “Kinship, Business, and Politics,” chap. 7. 61 Termination of the company is registered in AN-426-1844; 486-488 (May 6); bonds were also used apparently to pay off political debts. For example, a list...

... the origins of the cigarillo to other methods used to adapt tobacco smoking to a larger market, Guillermo Céspedes has compiled a fascinating account of the development of the tobacco industry in New Spain. He divides his book into four historical periods, the first two tracing the origins of tobacco...

.... The statistical analysis simply detracts from the more convincing descriptive analysis. The author claims that the boycott reduced tobacco production significantly. This may be so, but the evidence is not conclusive. Only if the price elasticity of supply is zero can we attribute most of the precipitous decline...

...David A. Brading Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 In the years after 1780, the prices of livestock; of meat sold in towns, of maize, pulque, sugar, and tobacco; and of land for sale and rent all rose in New Spain. Conversely, the price of goods imported from Europe fell. Since...

... long experience in commercial agriculture by midnineteenth century. 16 The development of agriculture was linked to three commercial crops—tobacco, sugar, and coffee—as well as the subsistence cultivation of foodstuffs. Until the arrival of the railway, tobacco was most important: Córdoba...