Cigar Culture History (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Independently Published, 2026

9798188024734

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Paperback. From Mayan ritual to Churchill to Castro to craft lounges, the cigar has never been just tobacco. This is its complete cultural history.A cigar is tobacco rolled in a leaf wrapper and lit at one end. That description captures almost nothing of what the cigar has been across five centuries: a ritual object in Mayan and Taino ceremony, a colonial commodity extracted through plantation labour, a deliberate accessory of political authority from Napoleon to Churchill to Castro, a shorthand for power in Hollywood cinema, a lifestyle aspiration reinvented by a magazine in the 1990s, and today a craft product whose production communities in Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic sustain traditions stretching back three centuries. What has been missing is the connective narrative: a book that begins before Columbus and ends in a contemporary cigar lounge, treating the cigar with the same historical seriousness applied to wine, coffee, cotton, and sugar. This is that book.The cigar's history is inseparable from colonialism, plantation labour, and racial politics. The premium handmade cigar was built on the Vuelta Abajo, but also on the labour of enslaved and contract workers whose role the connoisseur literature has consistently obscured. The lectors who read radical literature to the rollers were part of a political tradition as significant as the artistic tradition of rolling itself. The American embargo on Cuban tobacco, begun in 1962, reshaped the entire geography of premium cigar production and inadvertently created the Honduran, Nicaraguan, and Dominican industries now considered among the finest in the world.How tobacco was transformed from a sacred Mayan and Taino practice into a colonial commodity within a single generation of European contactWhat the lector tradition in Cuban factories actually was, and why it made the factory floor one of the most politically radicalised workplaces in the nineteenth-century AmericasHow Napoleon, Bismarck, Churchill, and Castro each deployed the cigar as a deliberate element of public self-presentationWhat the US embargo actually did to the global cigar trade, and how it produced industries that now rival HavanaWhat the 1990s boom actually was beneath the lifestyle mythology: commercial convergence, speculative pricing, and a bubble that collapsedHow the craft renaissance has changed the demographic and cultural profile of enthusiasts, and why lounge culture represents something genuinely newHow women have worked in cigar factories for as long as the industry has existed while being excluded from its social rituals, and how that is changingThis is a cultural history for readers who want to understand what objects carry, how commodities acquire meaning, and what the endurance of the cigar reveals about pleasure, identity, and ritual. Whether you have never smoked one or have been collecting them for decades, this book will change how you understand what you are holding. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
Cigar Culture History (Paperback)
Auteur
Marcus V. Thorne
Éditeur
Independently Published
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798188024734

CitiRetail

Stevenage, Royaume-Uni

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