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A Slow Fire: A History of Tobacco and Cigars Before and After 1492

A Slow Fire: A History of Tobacco and Cigars Before and After 1492

Hamshari, Anas
Moshasha, Adham

Paperback

Series: The Cigarfolio History Collection, Book 1

General World History

ISBN13: 9798190719529
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 548
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tobacco history did not begin in 1492, for that date marks one early European written encounter with a plant, practice, and world of meaning that already had deep roots across the Americas.

A Slow Fire follows tobacco and cigars along a longer human trail, from Indigenous uses and meanings to European misunderstanding, colonial trade, plantation economies, slavery, state monopolies, cigar labor, Cuba, migration, factory culture, lectors, public health battles, modern premium cigar culture, and the stories that gather around smoke.

Written as a source-guarded reader edition, this book is a narrative history for readers who want the story behind tobacco and cigars without reducing that story to luxury, nostalgia, or the old myth that everything began with Europe.

For Cigarfolio readers, cigar enthusiasts, cultural-history readers, and anyone interested in how one plant moved through ritual, empire, labor, law, commerce, memory, and modern pleasure, A Slow Fire offers a warmer, more careful way into the subject.

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