||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Concise and accessible overview|By Jon M. Stallard|Nice, concise overview of Cuba's colonial tobacco trade. I'm principally familiar with Virginia history, so this detailed snapshot of her major competitor's policies and practices was an entertaining counterbalance. Exceedingly well researched, I judge this as I judge any good history, by the notations and references which com||"[A] welcome departure from the conventional sugar-centered narrative of [Cuba]’s history. . . . Among the first English-language monographs to provide an in-depth study of Cuban tobacco, the book will have broad appeal among students of Cuba and Latin
Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first reliable commodities for those inhabitants who remained after conquistadors moved on in search of a mythical wellspring of gold, tobacco quickly became crucial to the support of the swelling Spanish Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Eventually, however, tob...
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