The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and
caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the …

An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old
world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von …

This pioneering collection of original essays explores the rich analytical category of psycho-
active substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives …

Humans consume tobacco in dozens of guises, all of which are toxic; globally, a tenth of
deaths among adults are caused by tobacco. Tobacco may be combusted (eg, cigarettes …

Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commodities on the planet.
Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of …

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 …

Two events, both labelled massacres by the E nglish who suffered death at the hands of
their rivals, took place within the space of a year on opposite sides of the globe and in widely …

Based on many sources, the paper makes an attempt to identify the social effects produced
by the rising use of coffee and tobacco in the Balkans, and to mark out similarities and …

In the past thirty years, historians have examined many aspects of England's western
expansion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; however, the environmental history of …

" Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten original essays by an
international group of scholars exploring the complex outcomes of the intermingling of …