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Tobacco A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization

Iain Gately

Traces tobacco's evolution from a neccessity to a coveted commodity that would forever change the economy by documenting the history of this plant, from its use as a sacred calumet of the Plains Indians to the controversy surrounding it today.

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Behind the Bastards

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Behind the Bastards

The author, Jordan Goodman, stated that James Buchanan Duke's tobacco business was a precursor to the globalization we experience today with brands like McDonald's and Starbucks, as written in 'Tobacco and History'.

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All of the globalization that we are now familiar with through McDonald's and Starbucks, all of that was preceded by Duke and the cigarette.

— Episode: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everyt...

Episode: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

The author, Jordan Goodman, stated that James Buchanan Duke's tobacco business was a precursor to the globalization we experience today with brands like McDonald's and Starbucks, as written in 'Tobacco and History'.

"

All of the globalization that we are now familiar with through McDonald's and Starbucks, all of that was preceded by Duke and the cigarette.

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